Hi Richmond, Why don't you make an experiment?
Make a full backup of your ssystem Do some serious testing in your spare time. Publish the results, please. You might do others a favour (now and in the future). Arne On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:48:27 +0000 Richmond <richm...@criptext.com> wrote: > Richmond <richm...@criptext.com> writes: > > > I was using MATE but I installed xfce. When I select the suspend button > > a message appears saying suspend in 30 seconds. If I click suspend the > > screen locks. If I wait the system does not suspend. If I log in again > > an error message says suspend failed timeout reached. > > > > There seem to be conflicting settings available for example in power > > management and in session management for lock before suspend. I tried > > using slim instead of lightdm but this has removed the suspend options. > > > > What I want is for the system to suspend to ram if it is left > > unattended, and to suspend to ram when I request it to do so, and in > > both cases to lock the screen so that it is locked on return from > > suspend. How do I do this with XFCE (4?) ? > > I think I have fixed it. It was caused by the mate-screensaver dialog > running. >
