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?

Solution

These instructions follows this tips page:

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

1. Edit the logind.conf file

   sudo gedit /etc/systemd/logind.conf
   

2. Uncomment the following line (delete the # character):

   #HandleLidSwitch=suspend
   

   to

   HandleLidSwitch=suspend 
   

3. Save the file and finally restart the systemd service:

   sudo systemctl restart systemd-logind.service
   

Comments

[abu_bua]

Try to check gsettings -> askubuntu.com/a/1059712/790920

[oliver]

I found the solution myself. I followed these steps: tipsonubuntu.com/2018/04/28/… but I was stupied i tried to edit the file before but I didn't see the "#" for the line to be a comment. After removing the "'#" it works!

[Chaim Eliyah]

Not working on Lenovo T430, sadly

[pepa.dvorak]

This works perfect, but unfortunately it does not make distinction between battery/ac-in situation - is there any chance making it suspend when running on battery and doing nothing when ac is plugged in?