Ubuntu Server – Prevent standby when closing the laptop

Ubuntu Server (22.04) on a laptop, how to prevent standby when closing the display?

I installed Ubuntu Server on an old netbook. It runs quite well, but the thing went into standby mode as soon as the netbook was closed. After that, of course, no more network connections worked. Bad for a server, of course.

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Instructions

But the problem can be easily solved. We edit the following file:

/etc/systemd/logind.conf

Here we now set the following values. To do this, we remove the “#” at the beginning and set the value to “ignore”, or no:

HandleLidSwitch=ignore
HandleListSwitchExternalPower=ignore
HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore
LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=no

Then we restart the system. Now the system continues to run when it is closed.