stopping a netbook from sleeping

[Rashkae]

Karl Auer wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> I have a netbook that is acting as a little router. It has the Ubuntu
> Netbook Remix 9.10 on it. I want it to come up at the GDM greeter
> screen,but I do NOT want it to sleep if the lid is closed (or time
> passes or anything else).
> 
> I have set all the gnome preferences. Once I am logged in, they are
> honoured. BUT: If I log out (or never log in) the netbook sleeps if I
> close the lid, and after a certain amount of time passes without any
> keyboard/mouse activity.
> 
> If I stop the GUI by killing GDM, the netbook never sleeps, so I have
> modified /etc/init/gdm.conf to exit without doing anything if a certain
> file exists. This is a bit of a kludge though, and I would prefer to
> have the GUI available.
> 
> Is there any way to tell GDM not to sleep? I've been through all the
> options in gdmsetup and none look useful in this regard.
> 
> Regards, K.
> 
> 

These instructions will disable the gdm hibernate and Suspend commands 
from working.  I'm sorry that I have yet tested if they will also 
disable the "Lid Close" actions.

In a move that I still complain about whenever I have a soapbox handy, 
Ubuntu has switched to a new version of policykit that requires any 
changes such as this to be made with a text editor.

sudo gedit 
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.devicekit.power.policy

There you will find xml configuration for 
org.freedesktop.devicekit.power.suspend

as well as:
org.freedesktop.devicekit.power.hibernate

And change the  <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
to <allow_active>no</allow_active>.

Alternatively, you can use auth_admin if you want a logged in user to 
use those commands with password.  There is another file you have to 
edit if you wan to find grain these permissions by user or group.