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For those running Linux with Window Managers (or Desktop Environments too), how do you make sure that on lid close: the laptop suspends and locks? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Linux is cool, I can do a lot of things with it. If i set a config file in Linux, I am damn sure that it is ran every single time. The code does what you tell it to do.

There is 1 thing that always seems to be "black magic": 1) lid close and suspend 2) lid close and suspend and lock.

If we ignore locking for a moment and focus on suspend. I cant seem to figure out why sometimes lid close would suspend immediately, when other time it takes 5 seconds after lid closes. On some days, lid closes would not even suspend !!

Did anyone manage to get suspend work 100 %? I cant believe we have tons of great linux tools and years into kernel dev, and still suspend is a hit or miss.

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[–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't know, I just installed Aurora Linux and everything works by default.

I bet your issue is hardware related, maybe you could change something in the bios to make it work.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    What's Aurora Linux? I checked their website and it's still unclear to me. Is it immutable?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Yeah, it's part of the Universal Blue family of distros which Bazzite is part of. Technically it's not immutable (they call it atomic), but yeah. For gui apps I just use flatpaks & appimages, for cli apps I do: brew install whatever. 99% of the time this does the trick, for that 1% which is some obscure random app I really want to try, I just use Kontainer which is a GUI for distrobox, basically it let's me install any linux app for any distro. And for those super rare cases when I need to use a Windows app, I use Winboat which is freaking great.

    Aurora now has a live iso, you could try it without installing it and see if everything works out for you.

    In other words, it's Fedora Kinoite with expanded hardware support, a few quality of life improvements and the trustworthyness of an immutable distro. I've been rocking it for more than a year, and it's the same pure bliss of Bazzite (which I run on all my home PCs).

    I use Aurora on my work laptop, I've installed it in an external M2 caddy drive, so my company has the Windows drive with the license intact, and I've set the BIOS to boot to the M2... so my files are all on the external drive which also works as a thumbdrive on my desktop PC at home. When my IT guy said I had to change laptops, I just plugged my M2 drive to the new one and that's it.

    Freaking great. Best experience I've ever had with work laptops. Plus, it's faster than Windows. I love it so much.

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