I'm usually downloading a lot of stuff, so I keep my laptop on and the lid closed. Ever since I made the move to Cinnamon, I've been unable to close the lid without sending the laptop into suspension. How do I disable this?
Via google:
How do I disable hibernate when I close my laptop lid
It would apply to disabling suspend too I would think:
Hit Alt + F2 and type in dconf-editor.
When that's open, in the left on the tree list do this:
Code: Select all
Expand: Org
Expand: Gnome
Expand: settings-daemon
Expand: Plugins
Click: Power
Change:
lid-close-ac-action: nothing (or your choice)
lid-close-battery-action: nothing (or your choice)
Close dconf-editor.
Hit alt + F2 and type r and try to close the lid.
I've also read that loginctl covers lid actions now. You could take a look at man logind.conf and see if that works for you.
And in the end, HandleLidSwitch=ignore worked for me too. I had found the solution before the FranciscoD pointed it out to me, but it had not worked. Then my friend pointed out that Linux is case sensitive, so =Ignore (capital I) wouldn't work. Thanks for the help!
Personally, I usually prefer my laptop to be suspended when I close the lid; however, there are times that I want it to keep working when I close the lid, e.g. when I'm downloading stuff.
Apparently, it is ideal to educate such applications (e.g. curl, aria2, others!) to "inhibit" suspension when they are active; but you can also inhibit suspension manually when running such things using systemd-inhibit. For example, if I want to download something using wget, I'll do it like this:
systemd-inhibit --what=handle-lid-switch --who="My Lid-Close-Suspend Inhibitor" --why="Downloading" --mode=block wget http://some/url/to/get
Then I can close my laptop's lid and it won't suspend while wget is running. As a bonus, it'll suspend when download finishes, which is what you won't get with above solutions which prevents suspension completely when the lid is closed (well, yes you can run pm-suspend to suspend).
If you have multiple processes for which you want to prevent suspension, you can run each one with systemd-inhibit, and the laptop will suspend when all inhibitors are terminated.
As another example, I've free Internet access at nights (e.g. from 1 AM to 7 AM), so I want to download stuff during this period but not after that, and I prefer that my laptop suspends in the morning (at 7 AM). Therefore, I run:
systemd-inhibit --what=handle-lid-switch --who="My Lid-Close-Suspend Inhibitor" --why="FreeInternet" --mode=block sleep 15h
And I have a cron job which will killall systemd-inhibit processes.
Please explain the code.... and how to disable the feature once I decide to stop it?
Which part needs explanation? Also, probably you'll find the answers at man systemd-inhibit. However: who and why are arbitrary descriptions; what says what we are inhibiting, and block mode says that it should block that action (rather than delay).
Also, terminating sytemd-inhibit process is enough to stop its behavior. Also, it stops once the command (e.g. wget or sleep command in above examples) terminates.
Via https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/27808/preventing-lid-close-suspension/
For GNOME, this is now handled by systemd in Fedora 18+.
As root, edit /etc/systemd/logind.conf. You're looking for the definition for HandleLidSwitch, it may be commented out.
The default is: HandleLidSwitch=suspend
You can set it to ignore, poweroff, reboot, halt, suspend, hibernate, hybrid-sleep, lock or kexec. Since your laptop screen is broken, you just want to set it to ignore, so add this to /etc/systemd/logind.conf:
HandleLidSwitch=ignore
Then, run systemctl restart systemd-logind, or simply reboot for it to take effect.
Just install Gnome Tweak Tool using the "Software" app. This tool is in the official repository.
Run it and open "Power" tab. You will see the "When laptop lid is closed" option there.
Tested on Fedora 24.
Asked: 2013-03-04 01:31:08 -0600
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