That fixes the issue. New issue is how do you get the system to lock the
screen automatically on resume/suspend?
On 3/17/26 03:13, Oleksandr Kryvulia wrote:
16.03.26 09:29, Ben Hutton:
Hi,
I have a suspend/resume issue with KDE Plasma that appears on both my
FreeBSD powered laptops. When I suspend by closing the lid and I
resume by opening the lid the laptop will go back into suspend mode,
usually shortly after the desktop has resumed. I usually have just
enough time to enter my lock screen password before it goes back into
suspend. I can resume again by pressing the power button and
everything works as expected after that.
The suspend on both laptops is triggered by KDE. I have it configured
to go into sleep on closing the lid within the power management
settings. I do not have it configured using sysctl.
Note that when using Xfce and using the equivalent power management
settings within the desktop environment it works as expected.
My questions are, do I have this configured correctly or do I have to
use the sysctl way of triggering suspend? Also why does it behave
differently on KDE as opposed to Xfce?
This issue has occurred over multiple versions of FreeBSD and KDE so
I don't know what to detail about my system. One is with hybrid
graphics and the other not. They are both Intel Thinkpads and 10
years difference in age. It's not a show stopper at present, just
annoying.
Any ideas on how I can debug this?
I had this situation on my previous laptop too. To avoid this I
disabled suspend on lid close in the KDE settings, instead configuring
it via hw.acpi.lid_switch_state sysctl.
