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

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 16:02 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> I haven't had much luck with hibernation when I have tried it.

On modern hardware with SSD drives a full reboot is fast enough to make
hibernation redundant. It takes longer to shut my laptop down than it
does to reboot (though I do then have to spend some time getting my
usual windows open and logged in). I just don't bother with
hibernation. I sleep the laptop if it's only be a few hours, and shut
down otherwise. Since it is very, very rare than I don't use my laptop
in any eight-hour period, I basically never shut it down...

Regards, K.

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