Re: p laptop with stretch/xfce: screen blanks but won't "wake up"
On 24 November 2017 at 17:33, John Cunningham <djohngo@gmail.com> wrote:
> FWIW, I have buster/xfce on a laptop and have the same problem. Backlight is
> fine. I thought about the external monitor trick, too, but I haven't tried
> it yet.
> --John
Well I didn't manage to wake the screen (in the end, I just did a
"systemctl reboot" from a different virtual terminal on the same
machine).
I *have*, however, worked out what the cause is:
Firstly, I should explain that I prefer to work by logging-in on a
virtual terminal and then, *if* I want x, I run startx myself. In
order for this to work, I had changed systemd's default from
graphical.target to multi-user.target by running:
sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
I've discovered that if, on the xfce power manager applet, I set
"Automatically lock the session" to "Never" and I uncheck the "Lock
screen when system is going for sleep", then the problem does *not*
occur i.e. I can always wake up the screen by moving the mouse
whenever the screen sleeps etc.
Success! (Of sorts!)
:-)
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