How to stop laptop from going to sleep when lid closed (18.04 LTS Mate)

[Bo Berglund]

On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 14:29:40 +0100, Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com>
wrote:

>> ...
>> So most items are commented out except thes:
>> HandlePowerKey=suspend
>> HandleSuspendKey=suspend
>> HandleLidSwitch=suspend
>> HandleLidSwitchDocked=suspend
>>
>> Should I modify all of these to ignore?
>>
>
>Could do.  I don't think it is very likely to stop you getting in to
>put it back.  Possibly make a copy of the original just in case so if
>the worst happens you can boot off a live image and easily restore the
>file.  I don't think that is likely though.

I did set all except HandleSuspendKey to ignore and checked its
effect...

SUCCESS!
Now I am writing this while I have a VNC session running after I have
rebooted the laptop and closed the lid. Before this modification that
was sure death for the Ubuntu session.

SO THANKS A LOT FOR YOUR HELP!!!!!

PS: I also used the webpage below to set up a swap partition for my
installation so I can hopefully get hibernation working too.The space
is anyway prepared for it.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq

DS

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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden