I am new to Mint, so if this has been asked before, just point me in the correct direction. I have an older laptop that I use as my VPN server and it just keeps going to sleep whenever I close the lid, sometimes even when the l leave the screen open it just decides that it will take a nap, which is a problem if I am trying to connect to it.

I already went to XFCE Power Manager settings and set everything to 'Do nothing' for all buttons and Laptop Lid settings are set to 'Switch off display'. System power saving settings are set to 'Never'. Display power management is disabled.

Any ideas on how to prevent this will be appreciated.

Do you have the "presentation mode" option in the small menu for the power applet/icon found on the panel?

You might also want to check the BIOS settings. I have had one laptop that had firmware sleep settings that took priority over every operating system setting. (Great battery life, but useless for anything else, it fried with a MB burnout at about 3 years old. Corporate lowest bidder resource.)

I just saw that and enabled it. If this work, will it still work if I have the screen saver on? Will it work if the lid is closed? In any case thanks for the suggestion.

I use to have Slackware on this machine and it never took naps. I logged in, did what I needed to do, logout, close the lid and that was it I never had to go into the BIOS and mess with it, but I'll check it.

Well that did not work. Enabled presentation mode locked the screen and a bit later that comp went to sleep. The search for a solution continues.

Let us know what you find. Even what does not work might provide clues.

screen sleep settings in Robo Linux or command to set time length

My solution would be to not have a GUI on that hing at all.
I use an old laptop as a server and NEVER had this sort of problem.
Even closing the lid does not put it to sleep.

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OR: have the gui installed but not running. so to engage the gui you need to command "startx" or "xinit". Then exit the gui whenever you are not directly using it.

I use the App "Caffeine" to prevent my laptop from going to sleep. I just click in the Caffeine icon in the panel and I can work all day and laptop will not screen-save, suspend, hibernate ETC. You need to download the Caffeine app and Caffeine indicator to put in your panel in order to activate and deactivate Caffeine.

https://linux.softpedia.com/get/Util...ca-49465.shtml

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