Re: Is this a Debian thing, a KDE thing, or something else?
The normal default thing for *laptops* is to go to sleep when the lid is
closed. This not specific to any distro, desktop, or even O/S. If you really
want to do things like ssh into your laptop when the lid is closed, you need
to disable "sleeping". Note: this *might* be a problem in terms of battery
life, so you should be sure about this and/or make sure sleep is re-enabled
when "on the road".
The sleep controls are usually under "power management". It is easy enough to
disable "sleep when idle". It *might* be more tricky to disable "sleep on lid
closure". (On my MacBook [like I said above not O/S specific] it required a
more invasive CLI command to disable sleep altogethed -- my MacBook never
travels and is always plugged in.)
At Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:28:08 -0700 Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> When I close my laptop, after a few hours it decides to turn off the
> network.
>
> If I leave it open and the screen is powered off, it decides to turn
> off the network.
>
> That would be fine if I weren't using it, but I do log into it from my
> desktop, not least to sync files.
>
> It only started doing this a few months ago.
>
> Is this a Debian thing, a KDE thing, or something else?
>
> Is there something I can do about it?
>
>
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