I just discovered something weird today. On my system running Ubuntu 15.10, I have set that closing the lid doesn't put my laptop to sleep. But if I close the lid while my pc is starting up or shutting down, it goes to sleep. Any idea what causes this?
1 Answer
The setting only affects the logged in user. To set it system wide you need to edit the file /etc/systemd/logind.conf
and modify the line:
"#HandleLidSwitch=suspend"
to
HandleLidSwitch=ignore
Then either reboot or use:
sudo restart systemd-logind
or
sudo systemctl restart systemd-logind.service
For the newer systemd.