i3 - can't resume after suspend

Ninjananas · 2019-08-25 09:22:18

Hi !
I have recently installed Arch Linux on my laptop, and I'm experiencing trouble suspending the system to RAM under the i3 window manager.

The problem is, when I'm using i3 and I suspend to RAM (either with systemctl suspend or with echo mem > /sys/power/state), the system does suspend, but when resuming I have a frozen black scren and I can't do anything, not even change the tty I'm in.

I tested to suspend in a simple tty and in awesome wm, and it works well ! Even if i3 is open in another tty, suspending works fine in those environments.

I should probably say that I start i3 directly with startx (I don't use any display manager). The only thread I found online is this one but it's not very helpful and I don't want a display manager.

Thanks for helping !

Slithery · 2019-08-25 09:33:16

Post your ~/.xinitrc

Off topic - Are you ninja nanas or ninja bananas? Your username conjured up both images to me

Ninjananas · 2019-08-25 10:19:59

My ~/.xinitrc is quite straightforward :

exec i3

I launched awesome the same way ( exec awesome ) and as I said suspend worked well, so I guessed it's sufficient...

I'm a ninja and I'm a pineapple (ananas is the french word for pineapple)

Last edited by Ninjananas (2019-08-25 10:23:37)

Slithery · 2019-08-25 11:00:20

Your ~/.xinitrc is incorrect. Read the xinit wiki page to see what it should look like.

PS - Thanks for the username explanation

Ninjananas · 2019-08-25 11:34:19

Thanks for pointing this out, I fixed my ~/.xinitrc (copied the one in /etc and changed the programs at bottom to exec i3), but the problem is still there...

qinohe · 2019-08-28 14:00:57

Hey there, you should work your way through https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Po … nsistently ,if you haven't already done that, but I guess you didn't since there's no evidence of that in this thread;) also (if it didn't help) work through the page behind 'best practices to debug suspend issues'

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