Dear all, Is there a command I can run from the terminal to prevent my laptop from going into standby on lid close? Reversely, is there also a command to toggle this state back to have my laptop go into standby on lid close? Yours, Robert

The value must have additional quotes. So the working command would be something like this - dconf write /org/mate/power-manager/button-lid-ac "'nothing'" See - [Dremor] dconf change a string key bash, scripts, dconf asked by Dremor on 03:57PM - 23 Ju…

Command to prevent laptop to go into standby on lid close?

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orschiro 17 April 2017 05:49 5

Dear @steven,

I tried precisely this but on my MATE system, my laptop still goes into standby.