Re: Is this a Debian thing, a KDE thing, or something else?

[Lee <ler762@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2025 at 11:44 PM Robert Heller wrote:
>
> 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.)

> > When I close my laptop, after a few hours it decides to turn off the
> > network.

On XFCE it's under settings/"power manager", System tab, Laptop Lid
and the options are
  Do nothing
  Switch off display
  Lock screen
  Suspend
  Shutdown

The settings might be different based on "On battery" and "Plugged in"
status - I made sure they're set the same

> > If I leave it open and the screen is powered off, it decides to turn
> > off the network.

I'm not sure.. maybe under settings/"power manager", System tab
  "System power saving"
  I've got the "When inactive for" slider set to never for  both "On
battery" and "Plugged in"

"I'm not sure" because I remember messing with the settings way to
much before I hit on something that worked.. which I think was logging
in as root and then running the power manager app.

Regards
Lee



> At Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:28:08 -0700 Van Snyder 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?
> >