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Promox on a laptop: disable screen + suspend
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Proxmox on a laptop

This is how you disable the screen and susped (on lid action)

Disable screen

Disable the console after 60 second. Edit the grub config:

vi "/etc/default/grub

Update GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX like so:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="consoleblank=60"

Save, exit and update the grub config

update-grub

Disable suspend (on lid)

Edit /etc/systemd/logind.conf

Add the following:

HandleLidSwitch=ignore
HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=ignore
HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore
LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=yes

And restart systemd-logind

systemctl restart systemd-logind

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