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.
