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metala

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From: Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria

Registered: 2020-01-22

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[HOW-TO] Prevent laptop suspend / sleep on lid close

The Problem:
I have installed fresh Devuan 5 without X server on an 2011-ish laptop. However, when I closed the lid of the "soon to be server" laptop, the device went to sleep.

The Solution:
1. Edit /etc/elogind/logind.conf

2. Uncomment and set the following parameters:

HandleLidSwitch=ignore
HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=ignore
HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore

3. Reload elogind:
# service elogind reload

Note. I did it few months ago and I am not sure if the elogind reload helped or I needed a restart. service elogind reload works fine.

Last edited by metala (2024-09-17 11:11:17)

JWM-Kit

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Registered: 2020-06-29

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Re: [HOW-TO] Prevent laptop suspend / sleep on lid close

I've configured many laptops just as you have, and it works well. The only difference is I just reboot instead of reloading the services.

It may also be helpful to change the behavior of the power key so it does not trigger sleep

I do this by adding the following to logind.conf

HandlePowerKey=poweroff
PowerKeyIgnoreInhibited=yes

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