10mo ago

Suspend on lid close

Hey, folks, I'm hoping someone here can help me out.

I have a laptop that has been messed up for a while, and I just got it repaired. I was using as basically a desktop, external monitor, mouse, keyboard. I just got it repaired and would like to use it as a laptop again. My problem is that something like 2 years ago, I edited some setting so that I could close the lid of the laptop and it wouldn't suspend, but I can't remember how I did it, and now it won't suspend when I close it, which is less than convenient for use as a laptop.

I googled, but it's not in GNOME tweaks anymore, and I'm not sure how to do any of the stuff I see people posting about terminal commands. I can follow instructions for command line stuff, but I sort of need it spelled out for me from step 1.

Any help is really appreciated. Thanks in advance!

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Can you run these commands and paste the output here?

$ systemd-analyze cat-config systemd/logind.conf | grep -i lid $ grep -i lid /etc/UPower/UPower.conf
- If I'm reading it right, it's saying it should be working?
  /usr/lib/systemd/logind.conf_cody@fedora:$ systemd-analyze cat-config systemd/logind.conf | grsystemd-analyze cat-config systemd/logind.conf | grep -i lid #HandleLidSwitch=suspend #HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=suspend #HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore #LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=yes cody@fedora:~$ grep -i lid /etc/UPower/UPower.conf
  Do we ignore the lid state
  Some laptops are broken. The lid state is either inverted, or stuck
  IgnoreLid=false
  If any value is invalid, or not in descending order, the defaults
  If any value is invalid, or not in descending order, the defaults
  cody@fedora:~$
  Apparently # makes a line huge? All the huge lines are preceded by a #
  
  at the beginning of a line followed by a space is markdown for a H1 format. That's why it gets huge. You can escape this formatting with
  
  If I'm reading it right, it's saying it should be working?
  I think so, but I might be overlooking something.
  Apparently # makes a line huge? All the huge lines are preceded by a #
  As macniel said, a line starts with "#" is converted to a heading. To post preformatted lines such as the log or source code, you can use "fenced code block". For example,
  
  ~~~ foo #bar baz ~~~
  becomes
  
  foo #bar baz
It may seem silly but I switched to KDE plasma becaus of this feature. In my humble opinion as a sysadmin, a modern desktop PC in 2024 should not need the user to query config values for power settings!
- This is the first thing I've found since I switched from Windows where windows just does it better, to be honest. Kde doesn't make you jump through these hoops? I love gnome, It's the perfect aesthetic for me, and I love how... Flowy it feels. But grrrrrr about this. Lol
  
  Nope! Plasma has a nice settings page dedicated to to this power related configuration, so you click exactly what you want to happen and forget about it. I configured plasma to work almost identically to gnome with the overview and gestures and it is so snappy. Still hope that the gnome devs work out a way to make these options more accessible, but even if they added those there’s no way I’d switch back now!

13 comments

Do we ignore the lid state

Some laptops are broken. The lid state is either inverted, or stuck

If any value is invalid, or not in descending order, the defaults

If any value is invalid, or not in descending order, the defaults