I just bought some monitor to use with my Dell laptop and connected it through the HDMI port of the second graphics display. So, the sum up for people ending up here in the future is this:ġ) If you want duplicate/extended display and ability to close/open the lid without laptop turning the screen off, but not being able to use the sleep function with closed screen -> use the hackĢ) If you want to use sleep with closed lid you have to use only the external display, making it your main (see picture below -> select 'show only on') and restart after that I didn't restarted the first time because I thought it will instantly change with no lag, which is not the case. It seems there is no easy workaround (maybe disable/enable the internal display driver on startup someone on another forum has suggested, but I haven't tested) for this if you want to use duplicate or extended display and you want to use the sleep function with closed screen.īut if you make your second display (the external monitor) your main and restart after that the lag is gone with Windows starting and applying this setting before loading its processes.
Yep, it's on 'do nothing', but this disappears when you use the hack since it basically kind of disables the lid functionality feeding it with the wrong driver.
