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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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[–] 1 point 6 months ago

I currently can't get it working at all and had to disable it, because my machine won't come back up. So i changed my workflow to take that into account. If I need it closed for a few minutes to move I leave it running and if the time window is greater I turn it off completely. There is always a way, my case is just very specific and I don't necessarily need it. Anyway, good luck getting it to work the way you like.

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