Computer Goes To Sleep Whenever I Close It After Changing 'logind.conf'

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I recently fully reinstalled Fedora41 on my laptop server (using it to host minecraft! that worked!). As with whenever I set this up Linux on this laptop, I go into /etc/systemd.conf/ and edit logind.conf. Oddly I didn’t see a logind.conf file, so I looked it up and found this thread: ubuntu thread

I looked through that thread and checked out the source, finding the logind.conf file in
/usr/lib/systemd/logind.conf. I go into this file and edit the lines to

HandleLidSwitch=ignore
HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=ignore
HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore

I write out and figure it’ll work once I reboot. Once I reboot I login to cockpit and then close the lid. Oddly it stops responding. Once I reopen the laptop, cockpit wouldn’t restart. Eventually I try rebooting the computer and cockpit works. I try again to see if maybe it was a fluke but it gave the same results.
I also tried copying logind.conf from /usr/lib/systemd/ to /ect/systemd/ and rebooting, but that had the same result. I believe I did a couple other things, but they aren’t coming to mind right now, sorry!
I came up with one of those things, I also changed sleep.conf and it didn’t do anything.
If there’s any logs I can dump, tell me how to get them and I’ll send them over. I normally don’t post on these websites because I can normally find information but I am lost. I looked around and I couldn’t find anything about this, so I made an account on here and thought I’d ask you guys. Thanks in advance!

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It fixed itself? I’m very confused, but yay! Apologies to anyone who comes across this thread, try waiting it out and messing with those files :stuck_out_tongue:
thanks!

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I did this on a laptop with Fedora Server:

sudo mkdir -p '/etc/systemd/logind.conf.d' && echo -e "[Login]\nHandleLidSwitch=ignore" | sudo tee '/etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/99-laptop-server.conf' > '/dev/null'

On Workstation/GNOME I think having an external display connected might cause it to automatically not suspend on lid close; I haven’t had to configure anything and usually use my laptop docked (lid shut doesn’t suspend).

Some laptops might have a BIOS option to enable/disable lid switch state (Dell usually does).