Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-13 Thread eben
On 6/13/24 13:30, David Wright wrote: Swap:0 0 0 You have no swap. Well, that's another good reason it won't work. 1. Fix /etc/fstab so it has PARTLABEL=swapnone swapsw 0 0 2. Run "sudo swapon PARTLABEL=swap" 3.eben@ce

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-13 Thread David Wright
> Swap:0 0 0 You have no swap. Cheers, David.

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-13 Thread eben
On 6/13/24 11:52, Max Nikulin wrote: On 13/06/2024 21:44, e...@gmx.us wrote: Well that's a no-go, because when you de-power the monitors, ddccontrol gives you no info about what sleep state they're in. Reasonable, I guess. Perhaps there is a command to put the monitor in standby state instead

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-13 Thread Max Nikulin
On 13/06/2024 21:44, e...@gmx.us wrote: Well that's a no-go, because when you de-power the monitors, ddccontrol gives you no info about what sleep state they're in.  Reasonable, I guess. Perhaps there is a command to put the monitor in standby state instead of power off. Maybe it is possible

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-13 Thread eben
On 6/11/24 12:54, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 6/11/24 12:27, Max Nikulin wrote: On 11/06/2024 21:44, e...@gmx.us wrote: Does anyone know how to get the monitor state programmatically? ddccontrol Thanks. However I am lost if you need to put your monitor to standby state (or to turn it off) or yo

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-11 Thread eben
On 6/11/24 12:37, Charles Curley wrote: On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:44:12 -0400 e...@gmx.us wrote: Well, that is not encouraging. Does anyone know how to get the monitor state programmatically? I'll write my own script based on that. DFMS works. I mean if the computer won't do it for you, roll y

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-11 Thread eben
On 6/11/24 12:27, Max Nikulin wrote: On 11/06/2024 21:44, e...@gmx.us wrote: Does anyone know how to get the monitor state programmatically? ddccontrol Thanks. However I am lost if you need to put your monitor to standby state (or to turn it off) or you expect suspend to RAM after some per

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-11 Thread Charles Curley
On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 10:44:12 -0400 e...@gmx.us wrote: > Well, that is not encouraging. Does anyone know how to get the > monitor state programmatically? I'll write my own script based on > that. DFMS works. I mean if the computer won't do it for you, roll > your own. Install arandr, use it to

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-11 Thread Max Nikulin
On 11/06/2024 21:44, e...@gmx.us wrote: Does anyone know how to get the monitor state programmatically? ddccontrol However I am lost if you need to put your monitor to standby state (or to turn it off) or you expect suspend to RAM after some period of inactivity or when lid is closed. In the

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-11 Thread eben
On 6/10/24 21:11, Ralph Katz wrote: On 6/10/24 13:05, Eben King wrote: Hi, I have a Debian 12 (Bookworm?) installation with XFCE as my DE. [...] and it still doesn't suspend over night.  Suspend works just fine when I go to log out and hit the suspend button.   I don't see any obvious errors i

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-10 Thread David Wright
Entire attribution and quote removed to avoid the mailing list treating this post as spam. Yes, but I don't know enough about modern monitor connections to know whether the monitor being on will inhibit the system from suspending. The docs for XFCE talk about preventing inconsistent configuration

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-10 Thread Ralph Katz
On 6/10/24 13:05, Eben King wrote: Hi, I have a Debian 12 (Bookworm?) installation with XFCE as my DE. [...] and it still doesn't suspend over night.  Suspend works just fine when I go to log out and hit the suspend button.   I don't see any obvious errors in journalctl.  Where can I go to deb

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-10 Thread eben
On 6/10/24 16:51, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 10 Jun 2024 at 15:05:23 (-0400), Eben King wrote: >> Hi, I have a Debian 12 (Bookworm?) installation with XFCE as my DE. I have >> three monitors, the left one is rotated CW so it's tall, and because lightdm >> can't seem to get that or the monitor p

Re: system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-10 Thread David Wright
On Mon 10 Jun 2024 at 15:05:23 (-0400), Eben King wrote: > Hi, I have a Debian 12 (Bookworm?) installation with XFCE as my DE. I have > three monitors, the left one is rotated CW so it's tall, and because lightdm > can't seem to get that or the monitor positions correct I wrote a script > that cal

system won't suspend automatically

2024-06-10 Thread Eben King
Hi, I have a Debian 12 (Bookworm?) installation with XFCE as my DE. I have three monitors, the left one is rotated CW so it's tall, and because lightdm can't seem to get that or the monitor positions correct I wrote a script that calls xrandr to set things up. I thought the errors from the monit