While not explicitly mentioned, my response was related to screen sleep behavior, not suspend or laptop/cpu sleep.
Suspend behavior may be dependent on S* state bios/uefi configuration - typically it does not wake up by keyboard/mouse/touchpad. So, Dennis' comment might hold the key to John's experience - if his laptop suspends instead of just turns off the screen - mouse or trackpad action might just do nothing. -T On Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 11:15 Denis Heidtmann <[email protected]> wrote: > On my X240 thinkpad running Ubuntu 18.04 when I suspend it will not come > out until I touch a key. The mouse will not do it. My touchpad is > disabled, but not the touchpoint. > > Because of your question I just tried coming out of suspend using the > touchpoint. Yikes! It restores the mouse but not the screen! Nor does > typing. I had to shut the laptop then reopen to get back to normal. A > similar strange behavior occurs with trying to restore using the mouse. > The reason this behavior is new to me is that I normally would suspend then > close the laptop. Suspending then restoring without closing is new. If I > leave the laptop open without suspending after some time it will suspend on > its own. Then to restore I press the power button, which is slowly > flashing. > > On our desktop keypress seems to be required to come out of suspend. The > mouse does not do it. > > How much of this relates to your situation I am unsure. Tomas implied that > mouse activity did not keep the machine from entering suspend. I did not > get that impression from your question, and my machines do not have that > problem. If that is what happens with your machine then that is truly > different. > > -Denis > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 12:23 AM Tomas Kuchta < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > Just for the reference - On my Ubuntu 18.04 as well as openSuse the > > trackpad is disabled when I type. AFAIK, it has always been like that and > > the external mouse keeps DE awake. > > > > Perhaps you needed to generate new DE setup files since you did not > install > > from scratch for a while. > > > > I had to reset users DE in their home dirs when running IT after almost > > every upgrade/rebuild. Not doing it, led to too many quirks and > complains. > > > > The easiest way to do that is to logout from DE, move all .files and > .dirs > > as well as /tmp .files and .first to a backup using remote login. Then > > restart your DE. That recreates clean config files. Merge your olds stuff > > back to your home, keeping the new files intact if you need to. > > > > Hope it helps, > > T > > > > On Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 02:18 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On my new Thinkpad I had to disable the Touchpad and the Trackpoint > > > because they make it impossible to type. I use an external wireless > > > mouse and that is all I need. > > > > > > Unfortunately, I just discovered that moving the mouse does not disable > > > the screensaver. Moving the mouse did disable the screensaver on my > > > old computer, but it did not have a Trackpoint or a Touchpad. > > > > > > The Trackpoint and Touchpad are disabled in the Xfce settings GUI, > > > leaving the wireless mouse enabled. I could disable them in the BIOS > > > instead, but that option disables the wireless mouse as well. > > > > > > Any suggestions? > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
