A "Do nothing" option when you close the laptop lid

[Nocturn Adrift]

Within the power manager, please, add a "do nothing" option. It severely helps people when they are making a compact workstation involving an external monitor. I went into the config profiles to take it out, it was a massive pain that would be extremely easy (from my perspective) to be implemented. Thank you in advance.

[Pierre]

But there is that option - from the Control Center - Hardware:
- "when Laptop Lid is Closed " "do nothing".
that option in Power Management - in available in both:
- On AC Power
- On Battery Power
under the Actions area.

you don't see that ? what desktop version of LinuxMint are you using ?.

[getaway]

Hello there

I am using LinuxMint cinnamon Tara and neverthless the option "do nothing" is checked for AC power and for battery power, I cannot avoid my screen to be locked when I close the lid of the laptop.
Thank you for any idea to avoid that???

[gm10]

Hello there

I am using LinuxMint cinnamon Tara and neverthless the option "do nothing" is checked for AC power and for battery power, I cannot avoid my screen to be locked when I close the lid of the laptop.
Thank you for any idea to avoid that???

Try this:

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sudo sed -i '/IgnoreLid=/{s/false/true/}' /etc/UPower/UPower.conf 
sudo sed -i '/HandleLidSwitch/{s/#//;s/suspend/ignore/}' /etc/systemd/logind.conf
sudo systemctl restart systemd-logind

Might have to reboot for the first change to take effect, I'm not actually sure.

[getaway]

Hello gm10

Thanks a lot for your answer.
Your suggestion works fine after rebooting the system.
I actually do appreciate. Many thanks.

But I do support too the first suggestion of "Nocturn Adrift" for a simple option which would suspend all actions except turning off the light of the screen when we close the lid of a laptop.
Your suggestion needs badly a lot of Linux knowledge not everybody have. Neither me...

[gm10]

But I do support too the first suggestion of "Nocturn Adrift" for a simple option which would suspend all actions except turning off the light of the screen when we close the lid of a laptop.
Your suggestion needs badly a lot of Linux knowledge not everybody have. Neither me...

For most users including myself the power management options work fine the way @Pierre posted above. It's just in some cases that this fails either due to misconfiguration or misbehaving hardware/drivers, so what I gave you was the override basically.

[getaway]

Thank you anyway. It works now...
Should I mark the problem fixed on the first post of this thread (I'm not the author)?

[gm10]

Should I mark the problem fixed on the first post of this thread (I'm not the author)?

You can only do that for your own threads. We don't know if OP's problem ever got solved since he never replied again - in case of doubt I would have suggested the same to him though.