734124 – x11-base/xorg-server: +elogind causes sleep on lid closure

Bug 734124 - x11-base/xorg-server: +elogind causes sleep on lid closure

Summary: x11-base/xorg-server: +elogind causes sleep on lid closure

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	Gentoo X packagers

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Reported:	2020-07-27 18:04 UTC by Gentookh
Modified:	2020-07-30 19:55 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Gentookh 2020-07-27 18:04:19 UTC

In x11-base/xorg-server +elogind brings up elogind that have lid closure triggering sleep by default, which causes lots of rear pain for users not accustomed to systemd way of things)

Why was it enabled by default (the +elogind USE-flag)?

Also this elogind is not visible in rc-status report...

Comment 1 Sergio Cayuela 2020-07-27 21:23:01 UTC

See https://gentoo.org/support/news-items/2020-06-24-xorg-server-dropping-default-suid.html

The lid closure behaviour can be configured with the HandleLidSwitch option in /etc/elogind/logind.conf.

Comment 2 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2020-07-30 19:55:14 UTC

(In reply to Gentookh from comment #0)
> In x11-base/xorg-server +elogind brings up elogind that have lid closure
> triggering sleep by default, which causes lots of rear pain for users not
> accustomed to systemd way of things)
> 
> Why was it enabled by default (the +elogind USE-flag)?

There's a news item.

There's a configuration option for elogind to control this behavior and you can also just disable elogind if you want to run X as root.

Nothing for us to do here.