Public bug reported:
Problem:
In Ubuntu Mate 18.04, dconf and the mate-power-preferences offer a
setting switch to determine what happens when the laptop lid is closed.
If you change this from "suspend" to "do nothing", the setting remains
without effect.
Reason:
The allmighty pizza-baking and clothes-washing systemd has drive-by-
devoured this functionality and incorporated it into logind which
happyly ignores the users GUI-set wish to keep his device running. To
avoid that, a manual change to the text configuration
/etc/systemd/logind.conf seems to be inevitably required at the moment.
possible Solutions coming to mind:
1) stop using systemd (probably an unrealistic approach due to religious
reasons)
2) remove the setting from the GUI so users are no longer confused by it making
them believe it would actually have any effect. After all, taking away existing
functionality because it might confuse users is a classical GNOME move.
3) But since this aint GNOME but Mate (which, I hope, strives to revert what
GNOME destroyed to a certain extent) you might even try to make
mate-power-manager reconfigure logind in some way. Free of any systemd
knowledge, I can only presume that systemd has probably invented its own, new
and incompatible-to-everything-existing messaging bus to make this happen.
** Affects: mate-power-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: gui mate-power-manager preferences suspend-resume systemd
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Title:
Laoptop-lid-close-suspend setting in mate-power-preferences no longer
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