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jbenge1

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From: Az

Registered: 2018-04-09

Posts: 151

[SOLVED]Laptop goes to sleep regardless of Idle or not

I recently bought a new (new to me) laptop, after installing arch, I immediately changed my /etc/systemd/logind.conf so I could try to save at least a little power

here is what I changed it to

/etc/systemd/logind.conf


#  This file is part of systemd.
#
#  systemd is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
#  under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or
#  (at your option) any later version.
#
# Entries in this file show the compile time defaults.
# You can change settings by editing this file.
# Defaults can be restored by simply deleting this file.
#
# See logind.conf(5) for details.

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#NAutoVTs=6
#ReserveVT=6
#KillUserProcesses=no
#KillOnlyUsers=
#KillExcludeUsers=root
#InhibitDelayMaxSec=5
HandlePowerKey=hybrid-sleep
#HandleSuspendKey=suspend
#HandleHibernateKey=hibernate
#HandleLidSwitch=suspend
#HandleLidSwitchExternalPower=suspend
#HandleLidSwitchDocked=ignore
#PowerKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#SuspendKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#HibernateKeyIgnoreInhibited=no
#LidSwitchIgnoreInhibited=yes
#HoldoffTimeoutSec=30s
IdleAction=suspend-then-hibernate
IdleActionSec=15min
#RuntimeDirectorySize=10%
#RemoveIPC=yes
#InhibitorsMax=8192
#SessionsMax=8192

The interesting part is that after about 15 minutes +- a few seconds (my timing skills aren't great) the laptop goes into suspend mode.

I'm unable to use any pastebin clients whilst at work, so I'm not sure how else to post any log dumps as they all seem to be to large to paste here

In the meantime, I will be changing the IdleActionSec to something shorter and something longer to see if this actually is the cause or if it just is some sort of weird accident

Last edited by jbenge1 (2019-03-11 10:09:06)

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Piri

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Registered: 2018-06-02

Posts: 70

Re: [SOLVED]Laptop goes to sleep regardless of Idle or not

What DE are you using?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=239937

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 78,594

Re: [SOLVED]Laptop goes to sleep regardless of Idle or not

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 2#p1828802

tl;dr - this is probably only supported by gnome and kde.

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jbenge1

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From: Az

Registered: 2018-04-09

Posts: 151

Re: [SOLVED]Laptop goes to sleep regardless of Idle or not

I'm using no DE, just dwm,

Edit: After reading through both the posted links, I see that I can't use logind and that I should probably use xautolock. I'm curious if I should edit the wiki this section in particular to make a note that settings like IdleAction/IdleActionSec in /etc/systemd/logind.conf really only play nicely with gnome/kde?

Last edited by jbenge1 (2019-03-11 09:50:09)

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