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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 dont really close my lid and walk away, i usually just lock the screen and turn off the display if required without suspending.

altho i have noticed users complain that suspend fails after a specific service/application is started so u might wanna check on that

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    i got in the habit of doing this also because suspend didn't work 100% of the time back then, but stopped when i switched to linux first laptops.

    i switched back to a windows-first laptop recently and forgot about setting it so that it doesn't auto suspend when i close the lid and it works just fine with fedora on it; linux has made leaps and bounds since the last time i contributed to it.

    although, to be fair, i was on linux-first laptops for a decade so there was plenty of time to catch up. lol

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