As far as I am concerned, sleeping is only annoying if it takes time. My MacBook...

simcop2387 · on Jan 11, 2012

If he's like me he'll leave some long running process going and close the lid to save power. I do that a lot for compiles or downloads.

InclinedPlane · on Jan 11, 2012

If I have a game running I don't want my laptop to suspend, if I have an ssh, RDP, or IRC session open I don't want my laptop to suspend, if I have audio or video playing I don't want my laptop to suspend, if I just started a compile I don't want my laptop to suspend, if I just copied files to my dropbox folder I don't want my laptop to suspend.

Derbasti · on Jan 12, 2012

Well, if you don't want your laptop to suspend while it is open, use Caffeine. Awesome App!

I was really asking why you would ever want your laptop to not suspend when you do close your lid. Watching a video or game is not possible with a closed lid anyway. Downloading something would be, but then I just leave the lid open if I want to do something like that…

dextorious · on Jan 11, 2012

If I have any of the above, I also don't want to CLOSE the lid.

What's with you people? What's next?

"If I have an ssh session running, I don't want the machine to stop when I remove the battery and the charge plug"?

InclinedPlane · on Jan 11, 2012

You don't want to close the lid when you have an ssh session running or IRC? That is non-sensical.

dextorious · on Jan 12, 2012

Really? Are you doing something over IRC or SSH with the lid closed? I normally don't talk to irc with the lid closed, because I can't reach the keyboard that easily...

If you want something on the other side of the SSH to continue, use sleep or tmux.

If you want to keep your session, well, keep your lid open...

dextorious · on Jan 12, 2012

Except if you want to use your laptop as a server, churning on with the lid closed...

Then you might have to wonder if yours is maybe not the typical use case.

Just sayin...