Laptop lid, when closed, will suspend even if there is an external monitor plugged in

With no external monitors plugged in, closing a laptop's lid will suspend the machine (as set by the lid-close-battery-action and lid-close-ac-action keys). By default, however, closing the lid when an external monitor is present will not suspend the machine, so that one can keep working on that monitor (e.g. for docking stations or media viewers). Set this key to False to keep the default behavior, or to True to suspend the laptop whenever the lid is closed and regardless of external monitors.

- Type: dconf
- Key: /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power/lid-close-suspend-with-external-monitor
- Default: false

Note: default system value is used for "Not Configured" and enforced if "Disabled".

Supported on Ubuntu 20.04, 22.04, 22.10.

Laptop lid, when closed, will suspend even if there is an external monitor plugged in

Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Ubuntu\dconf\org\gnome\settings-daemon\plugins\power\lid-close-suspend-with-external-monitor
Value Name	all
Value Type	REG_SZ
Default Value	false
True Value	true
False Value	false

Override value for 22.10:

Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Ubuntu\dconf\org\gnome\settings-daemon\plugins\power\lid-close-suspend-with-external-monitor
Value Name	Override22.10
Value Type	REG_SZ
Default Value	false
True Value	true
False Value	false

Laptop lid, when closed, will suspend even if there is an external monitor plugged in

Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Ubuntu\dconf\org\gnome\settings-daemon\plugins\power\lid-close-suspend-with-external-monitor
Value Name	22.10
Value Type	REG_SZ
Default Value	false
True Value	true
False Value	false

Override value for 22.04:

Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Ubuntu\dconf\org\gnome\settings-daemon\plugins\power\lid-close-suspend-with-external-monitor
Value Name	Override22.04
Value Type	REG_SZ
Default Value	false
True Value	true
False Value	false

Laptop lid, when closed, will suspend even if there is an external monitor plugged in

Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Ubuntu\dconf\org\gnome\settings-daemon\plugins\power\lid-close-suspend-with-external-monitor
Value Name	22.04
Value Type	REG_SZ
Default Value	false
True Value	true
False Value	false

Override value for 20.04:

Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Ubuntu\dconf\org\gnome\settings-daemon\plugins\power\lid-close-suspend-with-external-monitor
Value Name	Override20.04
Value Type	REG_SZ
Default Value	false
True Value	true
False Value	false

Laptop lid, when closed, will suspend even if there is an external monitor plugged in

Registry Hive	HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE
Registry Path	Software\Policies\Ubuntu\dconf\org\gnome\settings-daemon\plugins\power\lid-close-suspend-with-external-monitor
Value Name	20.04
Value Type	REG_SZ
Default Value	false
True Value	true
False Value	false