How long has this been happening, just recent or since you installed? Laptop or desktop?
I concur with Ed, the suspend stuff is controlled in the Power Management in Settings. I just looked at a 24.04 Xubuntu and there were several tabs under power management. See if they look sensible. According to a random Ubuntu page I found, any keypress should wake from a suspend. https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/power-suspend.html.en You could try forcing a suspend (as root): # echo mem > /sys/power/state and then try to wake it up with a keypress or mouse event. Another diagnostic would be, after recovering from a ctrl-alt-del, to look at the log journal, truncated to the period of interest: journalcti -S '1 hour ago' (or some appropriate start time) and see if you see anything interesting or relevant. -- Russell Senior [email protected] On Wed, Jan 28, 2026 at 4:49 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > > For some unknown reason when my screen saver activates, suspend also > activates and I can't do anything with the computer until pressing some > keys. There may be a more correct set of keys, but what works for me is > <ctrl><alt><delete> (shudder). > > I've tried looking for where in the settings to control suspend. I find > several references, but none of them indicated that suspend should be > activated. Can anyone point to some other place where suspend may be > activated from? > > Environment is: > > Xubuntu 22.04 > > Desktop Environment Xfce > > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens
