How to stop laptop from going to sleep when lid closed (18.04 LTS Mate)

[Karl Auer]

On Sun, 2020-04-19 at 08:31 +0200, Bo Berglund wrote:
> The Ubuntu install on the laptop seems not to be able to run in a
> headless mode 24/7 unless the lid is open. It simply won't stop going
> into suspend after some time (don't know how long before it suspends,
> but it is not doing it immediately).

Sounds like there are BIOS-level suspend options set up. Boot into the
BIOS setup and check that the settings there are not causing the unit
to suspend.

If the suspend is related to the lid closing, then as an absolute last
resort you could either disable the lid detector or physically prevent
the lid closing (and configure the unit to blank but not lock).

Regards, K.

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