How to disable auto suspend when laptop lid closed on Linux

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When a laptop’s lid is closed the laptop goes to sleep/hibernate/suspend. This creates a problem if we are using the laptop as a server. To get rid of this issue we’re going to tell the laptop to ignore the lid close event.

To do that,

sudo vim /etc/systemd/logind.conf

# And add these lines

HandleSuspendKey=ignore
HandleLidSwitch=ignore
HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore

Done!