On 25/11/14 01:03, The Wanderer wrote: > On 11/24/2014 at 02:59 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > >> On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 08:58:46PM -0800, Matt Ventura wrote: >> >>> I think the bug here IMO is that a system simply shouldn't *do* >>> things in general without me telling it to. If I close the lid >>> of my laptop, unless I have told it to suspend when I do so, >>> then it shouldn't suspend. I should be telling my machine to do >>> the things I want it to do, not telling it to not do the things >>> I don't want it to do. >> >> That's not the precedent set in Debian for some time now. The >> approach we take is "sensible defaults", and suspend on lid close >> (at least whilst on battery power) is a sensible default. > > I seem to recall a discussion some years ago (I think on > debian-devel) where this question came up, and I do not recall the > discussion having settled out with the conclusion you have stated.
Please be less vague - if you don't "recall" do the research instead of expecting others to do it for you. No offense intended - we all have "don't recall" days. > > My strongest memory of that discussion is someone expressing > incomprehension at the idea of why someone might possibly want a > laptop to suspend when closing the lid, and of writing a post > explaining one possible reason why (involving parallelism with > "wake up on lid open"). > > Personally, I suspect that the only reason "suspend on lid close" > is thought of as a sensible default is because so many other > (non-*nix) systems already do it, Or, perhaps a general rule for default settings - "safest/do no harm"? [just a wild guess] (i.e. laptops run on batteries - that default doesn't apply if "laptop-detect" is not installed) > not because of anything inherent to the behavior or to lid-close > themselves. > Kind regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/54735253.3040...@gmail.com