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On my Compaq Presario CQ62 laptop Ubuntu 14.04 would suspend on lid close. But a clean install of 16.04 ignored the lid action. According to with-ubuntu-16-04-laptop-doesnt-suspend-when-lid-is-closed (which I can't post on) there's a kernel bug fixed in version 4.4.8 whereas 16.04 has just shipped with 4.4.0. Everything else works so I decided to try to fix it with the existing kernel. Following instructions on laptop-does-not-suspend-when-lid-is-closed was helpful but outdated and caused wifi to fail to reconnect on resume. What's the best way to cause a lid close event to enter suspend mode?

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To get ACPI to perform suspend create /etc/acpi/events/lidbtn and /etc/acpi/lidbtn.sh as below.

sudo sh

cat <<. >/etc/acpi/lidbtn.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Initiate suspend mode when the lid has been closed.

# Only act on a lid close event
if grep -q open /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state
then
    dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 "org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.Suspend" boolean:true
fi
.

cat <<. >/etc/acpi/events/lidbtn
# Laptop lid event triggered.  Call /etc/acpi/lidbtn.sh

event=button[ /]lid
action=/etc/acpi/lidbtn.sh
.

exit

I also tried /usr/sbin/pm-suspend and sudo /lib/systemd/systemd-sleep suspend as alternatives to the dbus-send line, but these resulted in wifi not authenticating reliably after resume. I found /etc/default/acpi-support to be helpful background reading, stating that acpi-support is deprecated and dbus-pm, dbus-hal, or pm-utils are the current methods.

Other reference links: power-closelid, running-script-before-suspending-while-using-dbus, UPower

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