Re: system won't suspend automatically

[eben@gmx.us]

On 6/10/24 16:51, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 10 Jun 2024 at 15:05:23 (-0400), Eben King wrote:
>> Hi, I have a Debian 12 (Bookworm?) installation with XFCE as my DE.  I have
>> three monitors, the left one is rotated CW so it's tall, and because lightdm
>> can't seem to get that or the monitor positions correct I wrote a script
>> that calls xrandr to set things up.
>>
>> I thought the errors from the monitor setup script (before I fixed it) were
>> what was keeping the system from suspending.  But now I've fixed the errors
>> and it still doesn't suspend over night.  Suspend works just fine when I go
>> to log out and hit the suspend button.   I don't see any obvious errors in
>> journalctl.  Where can I go to debug suspend?  Thanks.
>
> Does xset -q show you anything like below?
>
>    $ xset -q
>    Keyboard Control:...


eben@cerberus:~$ xset -q
Keyboard Control:
  auto repeat:  on    key click percent:  0    LED mask:  00002002
  XKB indicators:
    00: Caps Lock:   off    01: Num Lock:    on     02: Scroll Lock: off
    03: Compose:     off    04: Kana:        off    05: Sleep:       off
    06: Suspend:     off    07: Mute:        off    08: Misc:        off
    09: Mail:        off    10: Charging:    off    11: Shift Lock:  off
    12: Group 2:     off    13: Mouse Keys:  on
  auto repeat delay:  500    repeat rate:  20
  auto repeating keys:  00ffffffdffffbbf
                        fadfffefffedffff
                        9fffffffffffffff
                        fff7ffffffffffff
  bell percent:  50    bell pitch:  400    bell duration:  100
Pointer Control:
  acceleration:  2/1    threshold:  4
Screen Saver:
  prefer blanking:  yes    allow exposures:  yes
  timeout:  0    cycle:  600
Colors:
  default colormap:  0x20    BlackPixel:  0x0    WhitePixel:  0xffffff
Font Path:

/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,built-ins
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 1200    Suspend: 0    Off: 1800
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On

Like that, yes.  What am I looking for?  The DPMS stuff is just for
monitors, correct?

>> Thou shalt keep thine tongue prosperous, and thy mind numb. -Lusers 4:9
>
> Thy tongue.

This is correct.  I'll change it, and note the change.

Dang, it's too easy to just do ^R and not hit "reply list".  Maybe there's a
key command.  I'll look into that.

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