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I configured my laptop so the display screen stays on and unlocked when I close the lid, because I want to do sleep and lock manually when I need it to.

This works fine so far with only one drawback, because I have a touchscreen:

When the touchscreen lid is closed and I carry it around into the next room the keyboard-keys touch automatically on random points on the screen, And when I open the lid, lots of funny things happened ;)

At the moment I use a workaround with the dconf-editor:

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Open dconf-editor and navigate to org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power and set lid-close-ac-action and lid-close-battery-action there to "blank" or "suspend":

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But this is not perfect because it also locks the screen, I would like to keep the screen unlocked but still disable the touchscreen while the lid is closed.

So How can I disable touch when the lid is closing and enable it when opening? How can I configure this?

I use a Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro

possible attempt: I know of a bug, that the touchscreen gets disabled if I turn on the power save option of my touchscreen. I could put this in two scripts that are called when there is a Catch lid close and open events and another script that disables power save when opening the lid

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  • Are you able to disable your touchscreen using dconf-tool. I don't have touchscreen laptop,but I think there is settings for touch screen in org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals. – g_p Sep 19 '14 at 13:27
  • there is only org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchscreen which should control, if you may turn the screen, but rotation doesn't work anyway in Ubuntu 14.04 – rubo77 Sep 19 '14 at 18:54
  • Does disabling org.gnome.settings-daemon.peripherals.touchscreen disables yours laptop touchscreen. – g_p Sep 19 '14 at 19:15
  • I didn't try, cause it sais, it would prevent rotation, which is not what I want. – rubo77 Sep 19 '14 at 19:30

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