Laoptop-lid-close-suspend setting in mate-power-preferences no longer effective

[Fionn]

Problem:

In Ubuntu Mate 18.04, dconf and the mate-power-preferences offer a setting switch to determine what happens when the laptop lid is closed. If you change this from "suspend" to "do nothing", the setting remains without effect.

Reason:

The allmighty pizza-baking and clothes-washing systemd has drive-by-devoured this functionality and incorporated it into logind which happyly ignores the users GUI-set wish to keep his device running. To avoid that, root permissions, a manual change to the text configuration /etc/systemd/logind.conf and a logind restart seem to be inevitably required at the moment.

possible Solutions coming to mind:

1) stop using systemd (probably an unrealistic approach due to religious reasons)
2) remove the setting from the GUI so users are no longer confused by it making them believe it would actually have any effect. After all, taking away existing functionality because it might confuse users is a classical GNOME move.
3) But since this aint GNOME but Mate (which, I hope, strives to revert what GNOME destroyed to a certain extent) you might even try to make mate-power-manager reconfigure logind in some way. Free of any systemd knowledge, I can only presume that systemd has probably invented its own, new and incompatible-to-everything-existing messaging bus to make this happen.

[APolihron (apolitech)]

Can we have a less sarcastic tone? Thanks

[Fionn (fbe)]

Sorry, my name is not Linus :-)
I still believe in the ability of future mankind (O.-M.-G.! There is MAN in that! Must be wrong.) to deal with views and arguments they don't share in other ways than trying to ban them. Maybe they even learn again to have a laugh at them !!1! (well, I am an optimist).
I have enjoyed writing my report the way it is, otherwise there may not be a report at all. If you didn't find anything humorous in it you are probably a GNOME- and/or systemd developer. :-P
I apologize for the digress. Cheer up :-)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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