On Thu, 2025-10-30 at 10:39 -0700, Van Snyder wrote: On Wed, 2025-10-29 at 21:48 -0400, 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".
Thanks for the thought to look at "power management" again.
I had set "when the laptop lid is closed" to "turn off screen" precisely because I want to ssh or rsync to it, and I had not visited "power management" for about a year — since switching from Bookworm to Trixie. Today it was set to "sleep." The "Inactive" setting is still "do nothing" (because "turn off screen" isn't offered) but sometimes the screen is turned off with the lid up, and even with the lid up it doesn't respond to the network — not even ping.
I think I know how the "when the laptop lid is closed" setting got changed to "sleep" without me visiting the "Power Management" page on my lpatop.
Several weeks ago I accidentally rsync'd all of .local, not just one file, from my desktop to my laptop. The default setting when Trixie is installed is "sleep" and I had no reason to change it on my desktop.
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