Comment 74 for bug 1307545

Confirming the but is still present. If the setting on power manager is set to "switch off display", upon closing the lid on a fresh install of Xubuntu 16.04 it still goes into suspend mode.

The solution proposed ( xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -p /xfce4-power-manager/logind-handle-lid-switch -n -t bool -s false) does not work for me.

Manually editing ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-power-manager.xml the value of logind-handle-lid-switch from "empty" to type="bool" value="false" also doesn't work, as the value keeps reverting back to "empty".

The problem is exacerbated by the bug #1303736.

Curiously when the laptop lid option is set to "lock screen" instead, it is respected, and the computer only locks the screen.