How do I prevent my Acer C7 from sleeping when lid is closed?

[lrvaka]

Just want to know if there is a way that I can edit the sleep settings.

[dnschneid]

When you enter the chroot it should be disabling powerd, so I'm surprised lid close actually suspends the system. See if suspending powerm also helps (sudo stop powerm in either Chromium OS or the chroot), and check if the xfce power manager is running (in the xfce notification area), and if so, if changing its lid setting does anything (if it has the setting at all).

[lrvaka]

It did not work. There is not even a lid closed option available.

[dnschneid]

Dug through the code; sudo stop powerm will definitely prevent lid closes from triggering suspend. (You can re-enable it later with sudo start powerm.)

[lrvaka]

Sorry my fault, I just did not type it right. I found this custom extension that just might do the trick as well.

Check it out:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/chromebook-central/dev/QORv0mDLts0

[spookyboogy]

Hi dnschneid, my chromebook shut off while I had powerd stopped, and now it no longer boots and the charge light does not turn on. I've tried holding the power button for a while, in combination with esc and/or refresh, but to no avail.

Is it impossible to reboot in this case? What can I do? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[dnschneid]

That has nothing to do with powerd or crouton; it has to do with the power surge that you edited out of your post for some reason. I'd contact support because it's possible something's fried.

[spookyboogy]

Ah, well, I opened up my chromebook and disconnected/reconnected the battery and all is well now. Thanks anyway.