Do not turn off external display when closing laptop lid

[Manticore]

Plenty to be found about this issue and I think I found a working solution here:

Laptop suspends when lid closes despite power settings

Manjaro XFCE Mikah 20.1 Power manager settings: imgur com/a/jrlgncZ I have my laptop connected to an external monitor via hdmi. In display manager, the laptop screen is already turned off. When I close the laptop lid, I expect nothing to happen thusly. However in reality the external monitor goes black because the laptop has suspended. How do I make it behave?

The problem however is that the images in this post:

Laptop suspends when lid closes despite power settings

I fixed it!! Here’s what I did: Uninstall light-locker package Reboot (probably not necessary) Logged in, lid open: Display settings, enable laptop display (https://imgur.com/prkPe5x.png) External monitor is primary display Use these power manager settings: General https://imgur.com/xwAicCW.png System https://imgur.com/Jey1c3f.png Display https://imgur.com/3j5lcmt.png You can now close the lid, and the laptop screen will turn off, while the session remains uninterrupted. Edit: nvm , …

Mainly this one:

Has this part about the Laptop Lid. My power settings don’t have that:

Any ideas how I can get those settings? The other thread is about a year old I think, and I installed yesterday :P. its not like I have outdated packages :).

Thanks!

[banjo]

Next category “System”.

[Manticore]

I tried to capture the menu, but it closes as soon as the screenshot is made. Either way, there is no option ‘do nothing’.

[Yochanan]

See Laptop lid close "do nothing" / Laptop Issues / Arch Linux Forums

This is what I do:

/etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/custom.conf:

[Login]
HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=ignore

[Manticore]

Thank you.

The logind.conf by itself didn’t work, but from the Archlinux thread you linked to I found:

IgnoreLid=true

in /etc/UPower/UPower.conf to do the trick!