Well I got the exactly same effect on my laptop: Samsung X20 since kde 3.5.5 (dapper/edgy) ...
It's all working fine in gnome but in kde since 3.5.5 i get this grey box about the a closed lid. When having Suspend Option activated first thing that happens on login is my laptop going to suspend. After re-activating everything is fine ... the laptop even susupends after closing the lid ;) well I don't know what it is but I wanted to notice that gnome does handle the laptop lid right. ** Changed in: linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Toshiba Satellite A70 always reports lid as closed https://launchpad.net/bugs/70102 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs