Re: Is this a Debian thing, a KDE thing, or something else?
At Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:42:49 -0700 Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
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> 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.
Right. "Desktops" don't normally need to "sleep" -- desktops are generally
plugged in to the mains power, where laptops often run on battery power. Note:
there is a *separate* set of settings for screensaver / screen "blank", that
don't involve actual processor "sleeping" / "hibernation" (actually two
different things). When the processor sleeps or hibernates, the network is
not going to be available.
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