Systemd: add option to sleep when lid closed, only when on battery

[brianjmurrell]

Submission type

• [ ] Bug report
• [x] Request for enhancement (RFE)

systemd version the issue has been seen with

231

Used distribution

Fedora 25

Some days I wander around my office building going from meeting to meeting with my laptop. When I leave a meeting I close the lid and put my laptop under my arm. When that happens I want to suspend to RAM to power down spinning disks (don't tell me to use an SSD -- it's not the point), and generally just save the battery as I am not using it until my next meeting where I open the lid again.

Other days where I don't have meetings, I want to have my laptop in my office plugged into the mains and want to be able to remotely log into it, using ssh, perhaps. Since I don't need to use the screen I want to close the lid, but of course not have it suspend to RAM so that I can still log into it.

Before systemd-logind was handling all of this, these options were both available. Now with systemd-logind, I have only a single option of what do when the lid is closed, regardless of whether it's plugged into mains or not.

[keszybz]

Yes, it'd be nice to allow this. I think it's already possible to achieve this by running an inhibitor before closing the lid, but a configuration setting would be nice too.

[poettering]

8016 has been merged now. Closing.

[brianjmurrell]

Woot woot! Can't wait for it to land in Fedora!