how to make X think that my laptop's lid is always open?

I would like graphical applications to always think that my laptop's lid is open (or else always be completely ignorant of the state of the lid). Strangely, even if I unbind all of the the kernel's "button" driver's devices, like so... bruno@box:~$ ls /sys/bus/acpi/drivers/button LNXPWRBN:00 P

how to make X think that my laptop's lid is always open?

I would like graphical applications to always think that my laptop's lid is open (or else always be completely ignorant of the state of the lid). Strangely, even if I unbind all of the the kernel's "button" driver's devices, like so... bruno@box:~$ ls /sys/bus/acpi/drivers/button LNXPWRBN:00 P