Dell XPS 13 Screen Sleeps When Laptop Is Moved

To sum it up. Nothing fixes this problem. Plan to do clean install.

Dang screen sleeps when I gently move or tip the laptop. It's like the movement triggers the lid closing sensor. If I tip it again it comes back on. After a restart it will be okay for awhile and then it starts again.

I've tried every setting known to man but nothing will cure it long term.

Shutting down and starting does nothing even with fast start turned off.

Restart will cure it for awhile.

Nothing works long term - planning to do clean install

Windows Phone Link App

 I like Phone Link on Samsung phones. I bought a new phone and could not get the app to set up the new device. I uninstalled the Windows app and redownloaded from the miserable Windows Store.

Open PowerShell as admin

Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.YourPhone -AllUsers | Remove-AppxPackage

Now go to store and download Phone Link app

If Store won't open try resetting time on Windows.

I just turned off automatic time and turn it on again and then sync.

It worked.

In an unrelated observation I noticed the automatic time zone was greyed out. I use recommended settings in O&O Shutup and it disables location tracking. If you do a search within O&O for "location" and reverse those settings you can turn on automatic time zone. This was not necessary to use Phone Link but might come in handy for traveling laptops.

Nilesoft Shell Context Menu

Hints

Shift + right click on taskbar includes shell options as top option.

After change to shell.nss, cntl + right click restarts fresh shell with alterations.

This site to download new shell.nss theme.

https://github.com/catppuccin/nilesoft-shell

* Choose raw then right click and save. Rename as shell.nss. Back up original as shell.nss.bak and move new shell.nss into folder.

* I grabbed  nilesoft-shell/macchiato/catppuccin-macchiato-green.nss and quite like it.

I found unaltered shell.ness hard to read on a dark background.

I couldn't come up with the right numbers to get the proper effect so replacing was easier. Just back up shell.ness to shell.bak and copy the code into shell.ness.

Oh, what the heck. Here is the code.

shell

{

var

{

isw11=sys.is11

}

set

{

theme

{

name = "modern"

background

{

color = #24273a

opacity = 100

// effect = 2

}

item

{

opacity = 100

prefix = 1

text

{

normal = #cad3f5

select = #cad3f5

normal-disabled = #a5adcb

select-disabled = #a5adcb

}

back

{

select = #494d64

select-disabled = #363a4f

}

}

border

{

enabled = true

size = 1

color = #a6da95

opacity = 100

radius = 2

}

shadow

{

enabled = true

size = 5

opacity = 5

color = #181926

}

separator

{

size = 1

color = #363a4f

}

symbol

{

normal = #a6da95

select = #a6da95

normal-disabled = #a5adcb

select-disabled = #a5adcb

}

image

{

enabled = true

color = [#cad3f5, #a6da95, #24273a]

}

}

exclude.where = !process.is_explorer

showdelay=200

}

images import 'imports/images.nss'

static

{

import 'imports/static.nss'

item(where=this.title.length > 25 menu=title.more_options)

}

dynamic

{

menu(mode="multiple" title="Pin/Unpin" image=icon.pin) { }

menu(mode="multiple" title=title.more_options image=icon.more_options) { }

import 'imports/file-manage.nss'

import 'imports/develop.nss'

import 'imports/goto.nss'

menu(type="taskbar" vis=key.shift() pos=0 title=app.name image=\uE249)

{

item(title="config" image=\uE10A cmd='"@app.cfg"')

item(title="manager" image=\uE0F3 admin cmd='"@app.exe"')

item(title="directory" image=\uE0E8 cmd='"@app.dir"')

item(title="version\t"+@app.ver vis=label col=1)

item(title="docs" image=\uE1C4 cmd='https://nilesoft.org/docs')

item(title="donate" image=\uE1A7 cmd='https://nilesoft.org/donate')

}

import if(isw11, 'imports/taskbar.nss')

}

}