Good work!

I am looking for a way to Shut down on lid close normally, but while I am listening to music with my eeepc, I would like it to Do Nothing On Closing The Lid, just Shutting off screen. Any idea how this can be done?

Hi, Mue,

Thanks for the advice. I have run some test and this is what I have worked out:

#!/bin/sh
LID_STATE=`cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state | awk '{print $2 }'`
#AC0_STATE=`cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0/state | awk '{print $2 }'`
VGA_STATE=`xrandr --prop -display :0.0 | grep "VGA connected [0-9]" | wc -l`
#LVDS_STATE=`xrandr --prop -display :0.0 | grep "LVDS connected [0-9]" | wc -l`
MUSIC_APP_STATE=`ps -A | grep amarokapp  | wc -l`

if [ $LID_STATE = "closed" ] ; then
#    /etc/acpi/suspend2ram.sh
    if [ $VGA_STATE = "1" ]; then
            xrandr -display :0.0 --output LVDS --off
    else
        if [ $MUSIC_APP_STATE == "1" ]; then
            if [ $LID_STATE = "closed" ] ; then
                su user -c "DISPLAY=:0 xset dpms force suspend"
            elif [ $LID_STATE = "open" ] ; then
                su user -c "DISPLAY=:0 xset dpms force on"
            fi
        else
            /sbin/fastshutdown.sh
        fi
    fi
fi
exit 0

Now my eeepc will normally shut down on lid close. But when the display is set to external monitor, it will just switch off the LCD. And when I am playing music from Amarok, it will just blank screen (any mouse movement will resume).

Thanks again

albkwan

A little enhancement: This time, the script will detect any of the following music players running, and will do the same trick: amarok, audacious, vlc, smplayer, mpg321, xmms

#!/bin/sh
LID_STATE=`cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state | awk '{print $2 }'`
#AC0_STATE=`cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0/state | awk '{print $2 }'`
VGA_STATE=`xrandr --prop -display :0.0 | grep "VGA connected [0-9]" | wc -l`
#LVDS_STATE=`xrandr --prop -display :0.0 | grep "LVDS connected [0-9]" | wc -l`
MUSIC_APP_STATE_1=`ps -A | grep amarokapp  | wc -l`
MUSIC_APP_STATE_2=`ps -A | grep audacious  | wc -l`
MUSIC_APP_STATE_3=`ps -A | grep wxvlc  | wc -l`
MUSIC_APP_STATE_4=`ps -A | grep mplayer  | wc -l`
MUSIC_APP_STATE_5=`ps -A | grep mpg321  | wc -l`
MUSIC_APP_STATE_6=`ps -A | grep xmms  | wc -l`
MUSIC_APP_STATE=${MUSIC_APP_STATE_1}${MUSIC_APP_STATE_2}${MUSIC_APP_STATE_3}${MUSIC_APP_STATE_4}${MUSIC_APP_STATE_5}${MUSIC_APP_STATE_6}

if [ $LID_STATE = "closed" ] ; then
#    /etc/acpi/suspend2ram.sh
    if [ $VGA_STATE = "1" ]; then
            xrandr -display :0.0 --output LVDS --off
    else
        if [ $MUSIC_APP_STATE != "000000" ]; then
            if [ $LID_STATE = "closed" ] ; then
                su user -c "DISPLAY=:0 xset dpms force suspend"
            elif [ $LID_STATE = "open" ] ; then
                su user -c "DISPLAY=:0 xset dpms force on"
            fi
        else
            /sbin/fastshutdown.sh
        fi
    fi
fi
exit 0

Hey Albkwan, excellent work.

One little thing you could do to simplify your script.  You can use the 'let' to do arithmetic on variables.  So you could change your code that combines the different music states to something like:

let MUSIC_APP_STATE=${MUSIC_APP_STATE_1}+${MUSIC_APP_STATE_2}+${MUSIC_APP_STATE_3}+${MUSIC_APP_STATE_4}+${MUSIC_APP_STATE_5}+${MUSIC_APP_STATE_6}

Then ${MUSIC_APP_STATE} will be equal to 0 if nothing is running, or say 3 if xmms, mpg321 and amarokapp are all running.


Hey MamiyaOtaru.

I'm currently running my eee on the AC adaptor with the battery removed, the lid closed and an external monitor.  It currently much cooler than when I run it open from the battery with no external monitor.

Mue

Hey guys I'm sorta new to this. Would be the first code I've made.
I have attempted to combine a few features of the above scripts and wish to achieve the following:

1. When I am playing music, running on batteries, closing the lid would just suspend the screen and come back when I open the lid.
2. When I am at home, I always have it plugged into the mains, if I have yet to plug the vga cable, it would shutdown upon closing
to charge the batteries.
3. When I am at home and have plugged in the vga cable, closing would turn off laptop display and switch to external monitor at 1280x1024.
When i open i want the laptop dispaly to come back.

I think that covers it.

Here's the script I created. Please provide feedback. I don't think it works. I tried it once and my laptop froze.

#!/bin/sh
LID_STATE=`cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state | awk '{print $2 }'`
PWR_STATE=`cat /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/AC0/state | awk '{print $2 }'`
VGA_STATE=`xrandr --prop -display :0.0 | grep "VGA connected [0-9]" | wc -l`
MUSIC_APP_STATE=`ps -A | egrep "amarokapp|audacious|wxvlc|mplayer|mpg321|xmms"  | wc -l`

if [ $LID_STATE = "closed" ] ; then
        if [ $PWR_STATE = "on-line" ] ; then
                if [ $VGA_STATE = "1" ] ; then
                        xrandr -display :0.0 --output LVDS --off
                        xrandr -display :0.0 --output VGA --mode 1280x1024
                else
                        /sbin/fastshutdown.sh
                fi
        else
                if [ $MUSIC_APP_STATE = "0" ] ; then
                        /etc/acpi/suspend2ram.sh
                else
                        DISPLAY=:0 xset dpms force suspend
                fi
else
        if [ $VGA_STATE = "1" ] ; then
                xrandr -display :0.0 --output LVDS --mode 800x480
                xrandr -display :0.0 --output VGA --mode 1280x1024
        else
                DISPLAY=:0 xset dpms force on
        fi
fi
exit 0

Oh ok. When i do that I jus get the left hand side top of the external monitor on the laptop screen, which is fine. Thanks for that.

I have a 701 as well.

I just tried the script. Works ok when on batts and playing music.

But i plugged in the vga cable and ac and then closed lid...it switched screen to ext. monitor but a whole bunch of apps crashed then it restart itself.

Should I only boot up with the vga cable IN, not plug it is while it is running?

If so, any ideas on a workaround apart from plugging it in pre-boot?

Thanks again

Last edited by SunrayDJ (2008-09-09 8:44:17 am)