{"id":26038,"date":"2022-11-12T19:25:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T18:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=26038"},"modified":"2022-11-13T15:57:29","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T14:57:29","slug":"ubuntu-server-prevent-standby-when-closing-the-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/26038\/ubuntu-server-prevent-standby-when-closing-the-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Ubuntu Server &#8211; Prevent standby when closing the laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu Server (22.04) on a laptop, how to prevent standby when closing the display?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of content<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/26038\/ubuntu-server-prevent-standby-when-closing-the-laptop\/#Video_tutorial\" >Video tutorial<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/26038\/ubuntu-server-prevent-standby-when-closing-the-laptop\/#Instructions\" >Instructions<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Video_tutorial\"><\/span>Video tutorial<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/px5-4iaTKgQ\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Instructions\"><\/span>Instructions<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>But the problem can be easily solved. We edit the following file:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\n\/etc\/systemd\/logind.conf\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Here we now set the following values. To do this, we remove the &#8220;#&#8221; at the beginning and set the value to &#8220;ignore&#8221;, or no:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nHandleLidSwitch=ignore\r\nHandleListSwitchExternalPower=ignore\r\nHandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore\r\nLidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=no\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/standby_netbook.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"394\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26032\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/standby_netbook.png 474w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/standby_netbook-300x249.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Then we restart the system. Now the system continues to run when it is closed.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ubuntu Server (22.04) on a laptop, how to prevent standby when closing the display?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}