[SOLVED]Laptop sleeps when lid closed, regardless of powermanager

AhmedKhaled · 2019-03-05 18:27:10

good evening everyone ,
My laptop always goes to sleep when i close the lid when i chose switch off display or lock screen in power manager settings.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks a lot in advance

hathor · 2019-03-05 21:26:01

Change by mate-power-manager

Bearded_Blunder · 2019-03-05 21:44:10

Some laptops have the controlling settings for that in BIOS, in such cases the BIOS settings sometimes take precedence over what's set in the operating system.

Worth checking.

ohnonot · 2019-03-06 18:55:07

hathor wrote:

Change by mate-power-manager

has bunsenlabs switched to mate-power-manager?
i always thought it was xfce4-power-manager.

damo · 2019-03-06 19:44:01

ohnonot wrote:

hathor wrote:
Change by mate-power-manager
has bunsenlabs switched to mate-power-manager?
i always thought it was xfce4-power-manager.

It still is xfce4-power-manager

hathor · 2019-03-06 21:23:22

xfce4-power-manager failed me and I changed it, now it works fine, xubuntu also changed it to mate-power-manager.

ohnonot · 2019-03-07 06:18:20

AhmedKhaled wrote:

good evening everyone ,
My laptop always goes to sleep when i close the lid when i chose switch off display or lock screen in power manager settings.
Any suggestions ?
Thanks a lot in advance

you should definitely look at power-manager settings, and what you can change there.

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hathor wrote:

xfce4-power-manager failed me and I changed it, now it works fine

sounds like voodoo to me. i think it would be better to actually solve the problem, instead of throwing chicken bones at it.

xubuntu also changed it to mate-power-manager.

certainly not on my Xubuntu 18.04.
can you show me where and when that happened?

hathor · 2019-03-07 09:53:44

I did not have xubuntu installed and I checked it in a virtual machine. I was wrong. In any case, it did not work well for me and the mate-power-manager did.

AhmedKhaled · 2019-03-08 10:00:10

in Xfce power manager the laptop always sleeps regardless of settings set in it . i tried turn off screen and switch off display but still the laptop sleeps

AhmedKhaled · 2019-03-08 10:02:59

i installed mate-power-manager but i can't open it as i tried running from terminal but nothing happened

Bearded_Blunder · 2019-03-08 10:04:04

Have you checked if BIOS/UEFI is handling lid switch events? If so it may take precedence over power manager software.
sorry to repeat myself.

damo · 2019-03-08 10:32:27

AhmedKhaled wrote:

i installed mate-power-manager but i can't open it as i tried running from terminal but nothing happened

That is the power manager daemon. You need to run mate-power-preferences for the graphical settings panel.

AhmedKhaled · 2019-03-08 15:28:14

Bearded_Blunder wrote:

Have you checked if BIOS/UEFI is handling lid switch events? If so it may take precedence over power manager software.
sorry to repeat myself.

i checked it but unfortunately i couldn't find a related setting in bios .
never mind my friend you're trying to help . Thanks a lot

AhmedKhaled · 2019-03-08 15:33:46

damo wrote:

AhmedKhaled wrote:
i installed mate-power-manager but i can't open it as i tried running from terminal but nothing happened
That is the power manager daemon. You need to run mate-power-preferences for the graphical settings panel.

i opened graphical setting panel and chose blank screen and do nothing but still the same behavior .

should i remove xfce4-power-manager ?! may be it causes conflict .

damo · 2019-03-08 17:13:42

You should only be running one of them. Uninstall or disable as you want. (Don't forget to disable if it is autostarted)

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/openbox-xdg-autostart --list

You haven't answered this:

Have you checked if BIOS/UEFI is handling lid switch events? If so it may take precedence over power manager software.

damo · 2019-03-08 17:39:03

Try this fix (from here)

sudo nano  /etc/systemd/logind.conf

Change the line

#HandleLidSwitch=suspend

to

HandleLidSwitch=ignore

Then do

sudo systemctl restart systemd-logind

-EDIT- and ignore any comments from @B_B about systemd!

Last edited by damo (2019-03-08 17:40:10)

AhmedKhaled · 2019-03-08 18:36:03

damo wrote:

Try this fix (from here)
sudo nano  /etc/systemd/logind.conf
Change the line
#HandleLidSwitch=suspend

to

HandleLidSwitch=ignore
Then do
sudo systemctl restart systemd-logind
-EDIT- and ignore any comments from @B_B about systemd!

Thanks a lot my friend .. working like a charm .
also a big thank you to everyone here .. this community is just awesome Now i can leave my old laptop to do all night torrenting without freakin' out in midnight . Thanks again everyone <3

damo · 2019-03-08 19:17:27

Good news. I'll mark the thread as "solved", but you can do it yourself if there is a next time, by editing the title of your first post It can help others looking for a solution...

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[SOLVED]Laptop sleeps when lid closed, regardless of powermanager

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