Bug#919694: elogind triggers ACPI suspend on laptop lid close, contrary to prior acpi-support configuration

[Mark Hindley]

On Mon, Aug 19, 2019 at 11:14:35PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> My laptop also doesn’t lock the screen any more when I close it.
> This used to work at least while X11 is running (it started
> xlock -mode blank), now it works neither when logged in on the
> text (framebugger) console nor under X11.

I think you might need

HandleLidSwitch=lock

in /etc/elogind/logind.conf for that behaviour.

Mark