At a guess that's the Automatic Suspend option. In the GUI. Go to Settings. Then Power. Scroll to the bottom. Click on 'Automatic Suspend'. You get a popup. Make sure "Plugged In" is set to off. There is probably a corresponding gsettings option that you could hunt down. Hope this helps. On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 2:46 AM, david <david at daku.org> wrote: > At 07:16 AM 3/2/2017, Leon Fauster wrote: >> >> > Am 02.03.2017 um 16:08 schrieb david <david at daku.org>: >> > >> > Folks >> > >> > I have a laptop which i am using temporarily as a test server. It is >> > permanently plugged in. It is running Centos 6, command line only. In the >> > past, I could close the lid, thereby turning off the display, but not >> > turning off the machine. It remained running indefinitely. >> > >> > A recent update (this past week) changed that behavior. Now, when I >> > close the lid, the laptop turns itself off within an hour. >> > >> > A google search talks about tools like "upower" and apcitool, but a "yum >> > search" does not locate them. >> > >> > Is there a way to revert back to the previous behavior? >> >> >> Sure that no X11/Gnome stuff got onto the system? >> >> -- >> LF > > LF: > Yes, lots of stuff just in case I want to run a GUI for giggles. The gnome > stuff was present even with the earlier behavior. Is there some setting I > can adjust? > > David > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- Kahlil (Kal) Hodgson GPG: C9A02289 Chief Technology Officer (m) +61 (0) 4 2573 0382 Direct Pricing Exchange Pty Ltd Suite 1415 401 Docklands Drive Docklands VIC 3008 Australia "All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer." -- IBM maintenance manual, 1925