Bingo. Right now the way to do lid close detection on Linux is via systemd-logind(?!). More and more of what used to be individual projects under the freedeskto

Bingo. Right now the way to do lid close detection on Linux is via systemd-logind(?!). More and more of what used to be individual projects under the freedesktop umbrella gets lumped into the system blob, and thus one is required to either use systemd wholesale or effectively recreate the Linux "desktop" from scratch.