power management – close lid – shutdown

[Member Fonsis]

Hi guys,

is there a way in antix 17 to configure a power management tool to support shutdown when closing a laptop lid?
I tried xfce4 power manager, but it only offers hibernate, suspend, blank screen or do nothing

My goal is: close the lid and the laptop will do a full shutdown -P now

Should I give systemd a try or is this a bad idea?
(systemd is currently not installed)

Thank you for your help. 🙂
Best regards,
Fonsis

Best regards,
Fonsis
🙂

[Anonymous]

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your stated goal is inadvisable
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as a practical matter, one cannot install systemd in antiX

[Member Fonsis]

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Ok, inadvisable or not.
I have used this “close lid – shutdown” option for years in other Linux distros and as far as I can remember there where never files gone with wind. It worked well.

So, the question is, do we have a solution here for this issue.
Is there a power management system available in Debian / antix 17 which allows me to reach my goal: Close the laptop lid and system shuts down. (properly)

Thank you.
🙂
Best regards,
Fonsis

Best regards,
Fonsis
🙂

[Forum Admin Dave]

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Having never done this myself… perhaps you could see it as a button event. Open terminal, run xev, and open / close the lid. If it shows a button event you would need to take that button event and put it in the window manager keys file for the shutdown command.

Other than that I think you would be looking at making an udev or acpid rule.

Here seems to be a decent example
custom scripts with acpid and udev (Ubuntu help)

Edit: I would think to start half way down the page with the acpid rule and skip the dbus stuff.

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[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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dang it.

on the old forum I had a post with how to do this with upower. give me a bit.

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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Ok, I mis-remembered. Its not upower, its acpi-support.

You can edit /etc/default/acpi-support to change values. Its a well commented file. There are a couple of lid state options, one for suspend, one for shutdown. Just uncomment the one you want. I don’t think you even need to reboot or anything. acpi should be monitoring the lid switch already, and /etc/acpi/lid.sh should be executed. but it doesn’t do anything unless you configure /etc/default/acpi-support.

[Forum Admin dolphin_oracle]

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Ok, I mis-remembered. Its not upower, its acpi-support.

You can edit /etc/default/acpi-support to change values. Its a well commented file. There are a couple of lid state options, one for suspend, one for shutdown. Just uncomment the one you want. I don’t think you even need to reboot or anything. acpi should be monitoring the lid switch already, and /etc/acpi/lid.sh should be executed. but it doesn’t do anything unless you configure /etc/default/acpi-support.

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