When closing the lid of my laptop nothing happens instead of suspend)

Question

I have Ubuntu 18.04 installed on my Lenovo Thinkpad L560. When I close the lid nothing happens. I want the system to suspend. The settings for this are turned on. So when I close my lid and reopen it nothing has happened. I'm not logged out or anything.

Can you help me?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 20 '18 at 20:20

These instructions follows this tips page:

Enable automatic shutdown, hibernate, or do nothing when laptop lid is closed.

Edit the logind.conf file
```
sudo gedit /etc/systemd/logind.conf
```
Uncomment the following line (delete the # character):
```
#HandleLidSwitch=suspend
```
to
```
HandleLidSwitch=suspend 
```
Save the file and finally restart the systemd service:
```
sudo systemctl restart systemd-logind.service
```

When closing the lid of my laptop nothing happens instead of suspend)

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