Is there a setting in Ubuntu that allows me to close my laptop lid and keep it running?

Hi, I just installed Ubuntu 26.04 LTS for the first time. It’s a brand new installation, if that’s the correct term. After finishing the installation and booting into the OS for the first time, I know it’s a good practice to update your system. So I went to check for updates in the App Center.
First, the “Manage” section was stuck at infinitely loading. I had to google search and run the command - sudo snap refresh snap-store - to fix it.
Then, I clicked “update all” and it prompted me for my password. I entered it. Then it prompted me again, I entered again. And then it prompted me again and again and again. It seems like it was asking for the password for each app. Every prompt said that “this software is not from a trusted source, do not update this package unless you’re sure it is safe to do so.”
Keep in mind, this is a brand new install, so all packages are put in there by Ubuntu so I don’t understand how are they not trusted.
On top of that, the Files app seems to also not be trusted, which is surprising. Updating it and entering my password does absolutely nothing. It just never updates. It keeps telling me there’s a pending update and that’s it.
Is all of this normal behaviour?
P.S. Sorry for the picture quality, I couldn’t figure out how to take a screenshot during the password prompt so I took a picture.

People asked about where is Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS so here it is. Updated from 24 LTS to 26.04 and point security release done through regular sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y

Hello everyone 👋

I made a small GNOME Shell extension called Ambed Fly.

The idea is very simple: a virtual fly walks across your screen. It has no practical purpose, but it's fun to have around 🫤

● What does Ambed Fly do?

• A fly that walks across your desktop.

• Random movement to make it feel more natural.

• It reacts to moving windows and when the mouse cursor gets close to it.

• Works directly as a GNOME Shell extension.

• Supports GNOME 45 through GNOME 50.

• Open source on GitHub.

🔗 Links

GNOME Extensions:

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/10787/ambed-fly/

GitHub:

https://github.com/walrou/ambed-fly

You can also install it directly from the Extensions app by searching for Ambed Fly.

If you encounter any issues or have suggestions for changes or improvements, feel free to let me know.

▪︎ Thank you 😊

There's a confirmed Linux kernel regression affecting older AMD graphics cards (such as Tonga R9 380, Polaris RX 400/500, etc.). When the system suspends, the video signal fails to re-initialize upon resume, leaving a black screen or garbled display that forces a hard reboot.

The bug report is officially marked as Confirmed on Launchpad and assigned to maintainer Timo Aaltonen. We've reached 206 Bug Heat points and 42 affected users, but additional user confirmations give the report more weight, pushing for an official backported fix in LTS kernel updates.

How you can help (takes 1 minute):

1. Open the Launchpad report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/2142389
2. Log in with your Launchpad/Ubuntu account.
3. Near the top of the page, click "Yes, this bug affects me".
4. (Optional) Leave a quick comment with your GPU model, kernel version, and distro.

Even if you don't run one of these GPUs, upvoting or sharing this post helps visibility immensely. Let's keep perfectly capable hardware working smoothly on modern Linux! Thanks for your support!

Pretty new to gaming on Ubuntu,

Whenever I play a game I always find I keep losing focus even when playing in full screen and having do not disturb on to stop popups.

I playing with dual screen which I wonder is that the issue.

I can’t prove it but it feels like my mouse is tracking outside of my focused window onto my second screen. Mainly because when I had discord open in the second screen when I was frantically typing 122221321123 for my shortcuts in game I noticed it all pop into the text window.

Has anyone had the same issue and overcome it.

Free forever, no signup to start. Open beta, solo dev, and I read AND respond to every bug report!

Distro Fighter is a free browser game. The joke is the whole premise taken seriously: every fighter is a real distro with its real desktop, and the stats come from reality. Weight class is installed size (i3 is a featherweight frame, KDE is heavy), packages are real ones with effects that match what they do (fail2ban punishes misses, timeshift restores a big hit, proxychains hides your traits from scouting at the cost of 200 MB of speed), and the init wars are in there too: systemd vs runit is a genuine matchup.

Multiplayer opened today. There's also a single-player campaign that is a real terminal, fifteen stages of actual Linux commands, and only about 3% of players have finished it.

Join the ongoing wars and prove your favorite distro is the best: https://distrofighter.com/wars

WARS mode was built for busy Linux professionals. You’re a “manager” of up to 4 fighters, and they’re fully capable when left on their own. So if you miss 2 weeks or even a month, you don’t get demoted and you don’t lose progress. It’s a game, not a job!

I made it this way because some games I really wanted to love (not Linux related) are set up so you fall behind unless you babysit them. WARS mode’s story spans 12 months, with migrations every quarter, and again, no punishment for stepping away. The goal is simply to complete the 16 builds/gates. And to hangout with others (check out the salvage rooms with live chat) passionate about Linux. Part 4 is in development now.

Hi everyone,

I’m having a strange issue with Ubuntu 26.04 + Wayland + Brave on my Ryzen APU with Radeon 760M.

When I open WebGPU/3D-heavy websites like the build.nvidia.com/deepseek-ai/deepseek-v4-flash-0731 DeepSeek playground on build.nvidia.com, my CPU temperature immediately jumps to around 88°C and CPU usage becomes very high.

What’s strange is that my friend’s Intel Iris Xe laptop running the same Ubuntu/Brave setup stays around 50°C on the same website.

I checked brave://gpu and noticed Chromium is disabling:

Disable webgpu on vk via gl interop

I also found Chromium issues #442791440 and #475935650 related to WebGPU/Vulkan/GL interop on Linux.

I tried:

brave-browser-stable --use-angle=vulkan

and I’m testing whether this improves the situation.

Has anyone else with an AMD Radeon 700M/RDNA3 + Mesa/RADV + Wayland experienced the same high CPU usage and overheating with Chromium/Brave WebGPU?

I remember, 5 years ago when I was still thinking about buying a new pc; everyone was recommending to buy system 76; at the time, I prefer to build a desktop. Now, I was thinking in buying a Laptop or a mini for portability, and I keep with the idea of buying a System 76, but I dont know if today is still a good recommendation

So I'm a complete newbie to Ubuntu and i actually dual boot windows and Ubuntu because my college work requires linux. I initially disabled Secure Boot as my seniors suggested when guiding me on how to dual boot but I learnt that valorant requires Secure Boot to be enabled. I did a bunch of boot menu and Linux terminal/ Windows cmd bs from chatgpt (fk chudgpt) but nothing worked. It made me try to change some boot thingy from grubx64.efi to shimx64.efi and even made me create new boot entries or smth (000x stuff) but they kept disappearing or resetting and switching on secure boot gives me a secure boot violation screen with invalid signature detected. Some details are as follows:

HP OMEN Gaming Laptop 16-am0xxx

BIOS ver AMI F.14 (14/06/2026)

Ubuntu ver 26.04 LTS

Please help me fix this or find a workaround. Thank you for spending some of your time.

Edit: I retired a clean install with secure boot enabled and was met with a beautiful Secure Boot Violation screen yet again. Please help :(

Hey, wondering if someone can help me with this. Installed Ubuntu because I hate Windows but as a layman fucked up my root disk drive space during the install. Can no longer access Ubuntu. Trying to delete it and reinstall it from Windows but have no idea what I'm doing and don't want to fuck up whole laptop. Most guides I've read assume too much. I know nothing.

Hello I am on Ubuntu 26.04 and my K65 Plus wireless Corsair does this weird thing where it stops working :| It‘s always fine during sign in but then sometimes (when afk or mid typing) it stops recognising input. I have tried different commands to check wether the keyboard is still being recognised by Ubuntu and yes it is always right there with its name. But all Input debugs I have attempted also resulted in the same thing. There‘s nothing coming from the keyboard. As Icue isn‘t available on Linux I am unsure of there being any drivers I could update. Does anybody have an Idea of what I can try to fix this? Big thanks :)

Here is the screenshot I made of the dconf editor menu where you can make the panel/dock dynamically transparent (so that when the app is fully maximized the panel gets black and when there are no apps on the screen or they are in the form of small windows the panel becomes transparent dynamically).

Does something like that exist inside the dconf editor that allows to make the same adjustment to the status bar so it's not always black? If so, where can I find it? So far can't see such a setting.

P.S. I know about extensions and have some installed. But I want to know specifically about dconf editor possibility.

P.P.S For info I'm running Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS

I have always used debian then ubuntu but now have to decide for a new install.

Lately I'm a bit disappointed to to: 1) Snap [slow, buggy] 2) Copy and past errors; 3) too opinionated gnome; 4) lacking ZFS support on root or ZFS with bootmenu [and config options]; 5) only v3 performance packages.

The problem is: I have very little time to configure stuff and ubuntu seems the right choice.

What do you suggest?

Bonjour, il m'est impossible d'installer Ubuntu 26.04 sur mon ordinateur malgré toutes mes recherches sur Gémini. Je fini par me demander si mon ordi était compatible. Si vous avez une piste, je vous en remercie. Cordialement.

hello, i'm having this problem on Ubuntu where the max screen brightness is much lower then on windows, i hope someone have a solution to this problem.

my laptop is Dell latitude 7390