At Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:42:49 -0700 Van Snyder <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 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.àThis not specific to any distro, desktop, or even O/S.àIf > > > 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 àmanagement" 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 â since switching from Bookworm > > to Trixie. Today it was àset 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 â 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. > > > -- Robert Heller -- Cell: 413-658-7953 GV: 978-633-5364 Deepwoods Software -- Custom Software Services http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Linux Administration Services [email protected] -- Webhosting Services
