I recently purchased the Acer R13 Cromebook. I have set the "Settings -->Device --> Power --> When idle" to ''Turn off display'. It does that after a certain amount of time (as I expected) and the power indicator remains blue (again, as I expected). My question is, how do I turn the display back on? I have observed the following behaviour when doing what I thought should be done:
In laptop mode (i.e. with screen open) I expected to be able to touch the keyboard pad or depress any key. When I did this, there was some indication that something happened in that the black screen 'lightened' a little, but it wouldn't come on.
In tablet mode, I tried a couple of things. Firstly I touched the screen - this did nothing. Then I read
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/master/power_manager/docs/power_buttons.md (although I'm not sure if it applies!) where it says that a single tap of the power button would turn the screen back on. This action exhibited the same behaviour as in laptop mode (i.e. the screen 'lightened' a little).
My workaround is to close up the chromebook screen, wait until the power indicator starts flashing orange (i.e. in sleep mode), then open the screen to get the prompt to enter pin or password.
I would welcome any thoughts/comments/guidance relating to this. My basic question is how to turn the screen back on if you have this 'Turn off display' setting?
Thanks
