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Felix Haller
Asked: 2013-11-29 08:25:16 +0800 CST

Why is my notebook going to sleep when lid is closed even If I disabled it?

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Here is my situation:

  • I installed Xubuntu 13. 10
  • I added the Cinnamon PPA and installed Cinnamon 2. 0
  • I removed all the GNOME stuff, that came with Xubuntu
  • Everything went fine so far...but...

These are my settings:

  • In my Power settings the following is set:
  • When lid is closed (on battery):suspend
    • When lid is closed (on AC):do nothing
    • In my lock settings I set that there should be a password prompt, after going to suspend/waking up

Now this strange behaviour:

If I close my lid, be it on battery or on AC power, the notebook suspends. But after waking it up, there is no password prompt. If I manually activate suspend mode (special key on keyboard/system menu) there is a password prompt after waking up.

My question: Why is this happening? Why does the power daemon (there is only "upowerd" running) ignores my power settings? What software/settings has to be installed/set to make this work properly?

power-management

2 Answers

  1. Ok I found a (workaround?)-solution in a german forum:

    http://www.linuxmintusers.de/index.php?PHPSESSID=ae47571e196b624a3109c83c69d26183&topic=15178.msg179264#msg179264

    You have to edit the file /etc/systemd/login.conf and uncomment/modify the following two lines:

    HandleLidSwitch=ignore
LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=no

    That solved the issue for me and the system no longer ignores my cinnamon settings.

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  2. This is already a bug issue, so it will be solved sometime in the future. For now there is and official workaround:

    "This can be adjusted in /etc/systemd/logind.conf. Just set HandleLidSwitch and other the events you want handled by systemd to ignore - you have to delete # in the beginning of the respective lines, save, close the file, and restart."

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