Disable sleep on lid close

I am using an old laptop in my homelab, but I want to do everything from my personal computer, with ssh. The default behavior in Debian is to suspend when the laptop lid is closed, but it's easy to change that, just edit

/etc/systemd/logind.conf

and change the line

#HandleLidSwitch=suspend

to

HandleLidSwitch=ignore

then

$ sudo systemctl restart systemd-logind

That's it.


Written on 2025-06-04. Last updated on 2025-07-02.