How to keep wifi on when I close my lid

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Hello Fedora Community,
My name is Joseph Knapp. I am using Fedora 37 workstation on my HP 15 with an i3-1115g4. When I close my laptop’s lid my wifi turns off, I want it to stay on. When I used the XFCE spin of Fedora the wifi card stayed on when I closed my lid, so why does GNOME turn it off. I have trouble using XFCE because it is not as feature rich or integrated as I would like it to be. I want to use apps like IPFS desktop and I2P+, but this gets in the way of being able to do that. How do I keep the wifi on when I close the lid of my laptop?

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P.S. I do not want to disable auto suspend, which the wifi seems to be tied to. I still want it to demand a password while the wifi stays on.

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Make systemd-logind ignore lid switch events:

sudo mkdir -p /etc/systemd/logind.conf.d
sudo tee /etc/systemd/logind.conf.d/00-custom.conf << EOF > /dev/null
[Login]
HandleLidSwitch=ignore
EOF
sudo systemctl restart systemd-logind.service

The last command will close currently open sessions to apply changes.

See also: logind.conf

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Will your solution disable the password protection when I open my lid?

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If you want to lock the screen when closing the lid, change ignore to lock in the above reply.

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Why are you using tee if you’re sending the second output to /dev/null? Just use cat! HTH, HAND.

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This is a well known issue, that sudo cat cannot redirect to a privileged file.