In KDE look in the Power Managment -> Energy Saving There should be a
setting on what to do when the lid is closed. You can probably just
uncheck the lid button setting and then it will do nothing.
That being said, I would keep your lid open at least a little bit.
Having the lid closed causes the machine to get quite a bit hotter than
if you can have the lid open to let the heat out. Even if the machine
doesn't overheat and crash on you now, it will be thermally throttling
and you'll only get a fraction of the performance out of it that you
could be.
Brian Cluff
On 11/1/22 16:38, joe--- via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Thank you Brian for solving the issue of missing
> PLUG email messages. All is well now.
>
> Linux Mint on Thinkpad laptop used to run fine
> 24/7 with the lid closed as I use an external
> monitor, keyboard, and mouse. But recently
> something changed (and I don't know what) but
> now, I have to have the lid up for it to work.
>
> What settings can I change to get it to work
> again with the lid closed?
>
> Also, I have another Thinkpad running Linux Mint
> onto which I rsync backup all of my files; and
> I'd like to be able to do that to that second
> device without having to lift the lid and sign
> in in order to do my backups.
>
> Thanks PLUG friends. ~Joe
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