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

[Van Snyder <van.snyder@sbcglobal.net>]

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" ("turn off screen" isn't offered) but sometimes the screen is turned off with the lid up and it doesn't respond to the network — not even ping.