Questions tagged [sleep]
Sleep mode is a low-power state designed to provide very fast resuming of a computer's operation, with minimal power consumption.
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My laptop seems to be stuck in a low power mode
My asus vivobook was asleep. I tried to wake it up but before anything appeared on the screen I changed my mind and started to hard shut it off. While I was holding the power button I noticed the ...
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loginctl-hooks + slock not working as expected
I have openrc init system and I want to lock my loginctl session with slock on running loginctl suspend.
I am using the loginctl hooks for the purpose.
loginctl man page :
Hook directories
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Stop Windows 11 from waking when plugging in/out
So I just bought a new asus vivobook and I noticed an issue, that it is perfectly fine if I close the lid to put it to sleep (either plugged in or out) , but whenever there is an event of either ...
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Task Scheduler Windows 11 not waking the computer
I know that variations of this have been asked previously and I have read most of the responses to older threads. However I am using a newer OS and those older threads have helped me get this far but ...
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Laptop Keyboard disabled after suspend or sleep Debian 12, How do i fix it?
My Dell laptop has Debian 12, every after I suspend or sleep the laptop the keyboard is disabled when I wake it back. even after using on-screen keyboard to log in, it stays disabled.
I tried changing ...
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Windows 10 resizes and relocates open windows after sleep(monitor turned off)
I have Intel NUC with Windows 10 Pro and 4k monitor connected via HDMI. I have several opened browser windows with different size and location on my screen.
Case 1. When I need to leave my PC and go ...
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What to add to batch file to disable device from waking PC during sleep?
I have a batch file on my Windows 11 PC that puts it to sleep. I have a hotkey on my keyboard that runs the program when I press it, putting my PC to sleep.
But recently I've run into issues where my ...
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Incorrect reading of battery status after wake up (linux only)
My computer is a Thinkpad X1 Extreme Gen 2. OS is OpenSUSE Tumbleweed / Slowroll, dual boot system with Windows 11.
I am having this issue since around February. In Windows everything works fine, but ...
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Are there any ways to wake up Linux laptops with the closed lid from suspend?
Any suggestions for this question will be fairly appreciated.
We are trying to make an 'update date': scheduled wake-up and some commands (such as apt update && apt dist-upgrade) execution. ...
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How to dock and wake Windows laptop without opening it?
I want to plug in the dock (with the dongle for my wireless keyboard) and then wake up my Windows laptop with the keyboard. If the dock/dongle is connected to my laptop before the laptop goes to sleep,...
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Why does my internal SSD take a long time (about 30 seconds) to become accessible Windows 10?
When I resume my PC from sleep, a particular SSD takes about 30 seconds to become available (I can see the drive but Explorer freezes accessing it during this time). It otherwise operates normally (...
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How to ensure that the computer doesn't beep when put in sleep mode?
Putting this computer into sleep mode gives faint but noticeable beeping sounds synchronized with the blinking light. System and hardware info:
Device name DESKTOP-GG6AA6L
Processor Intel(R) Core(...
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Windows 11 machine not sleeping / display not sleeping either
I have been attempting to troubleshoot an issue that has plagued me ever since reformatting my machine to Win11. Ever since, Win11 will not sleep properly nor will it put my display to sleep either.
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Why does my laptop have high power consumption in sleep mode (10-80 watts)?
So I recently bought Asus ROG Strix G16 (2024) laptop but I noticed a high power consumption in sleep mode (10-80 watts).
It jumps periodically from 10 to 80 watts but it should only power RAM and ...
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Will FFmpeg continue encoding, converting when sleep mode?
Will it run? I was curious so I could make a 24 hour video. It doesn't even matter what my space is, but is it possible?
For example I take my live video and put FFmpeg, then I will leave it overnight....
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I don't know why my laptop always wake up automatically in 1 minute with windows 11
first I checked powercfg /lastwake and it showed 0
, and then I checked powercfg /devicequery wake_armed it showed None because I just disabled the mouse and keyboard to wake up my system.
And then I ...
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System session has transitioned from 1 to 3. Reason InputAccelerometer. But I don't have an accelerometer
So I checked my Event Viewer > System, and found this 566 message from Kernel-Power:
The system session has transitioned from 1 to 3. Reason
InputAccelerometer
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is it possible to stop windows 11 from going to sleep/shutdown when closing the lid?
Quite often I need to leave running computational intensive programs on my laptop for hours or days. I would like to leave the laptop with the lid closed but when I do it the laptop goes to sleep/...
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How can I make my computer go into "sleep" mode when no apps are in use, without shutting down display
I want to save power consumption and preserve my components, without locking my screen and without shutting down the display. Basically just show the desktop but running with minimum power. It could ...
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Turn off laptop display without putting it to sleep
I tried the suggestions on Turn off display in Windows on command and they aren't suitable.
The Screensaver method only blanks the display without turning it off. Maybe that would work for OLED users.
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How to rescan connected audio devices after waking MacBook from sleep?
I have a MacBook Pro M2 running on Sonomo 14.4 that I connect my Solid State Logic SSL2+ audio interface to. The interface is connected via USB-C directly to the MacBook where it gets it's power from.
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How to prevent my computer from freezing after overnight training runs
In my spare time I train ML models on my computer overnight. I typically do this by just preventing the computer from going to sleep and turning off the screens before I go to bed. In the morning I'll ...
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Keyboard function keys stop working after resuming from sleep
I have this Microsoft keyboard with relevant software installed:
It is connected to the screen (LG 32UN88A-W) which itself is connected to the laptop using USB-C.
When computer resumes from sleep, ...
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Did Windows change the login screen behavior to explicitly prevent typing in a password until the screen is fully initialized?
In older versions of Windows (at least Windows XP, maybe as late as Windows 7), I used to be able to wake up the computer from sleep (by moving the mouse or hitting a key on the keyboard) and then ...
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Why doesn't my windows 11 laptop always wake from sleep?
When I close the lid of my laptop, I have it to set to go to sleep mode. If I open the lid shortly after, it doesn't always wake from sleep mode. If it doesn't, the only life sign from my laptop is ...
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How to prevent windows idle sleep if there is disk activity?
Searching for these keywords online is difficult. I'm trying to find out if there are any hardware activity based idle thresholds in Windows (11), that are tweakable or that I can take advantage of, ...
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Laptop will not go to sleep
I'm new here, so it is a pleasure to meet all of you. I have a Windows 11 computer, and everything else works fine otherwise. However, when I try to make my computer sleep, the screen will only dim ...
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Mac Mini has static screen when wake from sleep
Intermittently, about once a day, when waking my Mac Mini M2 from sleep, I'll get this screen instead of the lock screen:
Is there anything I can do to fix this? Turning the monitor off and on again ...
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Udev rule doesn't allow Ubuntu to wake on USB Resume sequencing, but NixOS does
I've got a Lenovo ThinkPad T480 running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon running NixOS, and a USB Device with vendor ID 0x36dc. The USB Device is capable of remote wakeup USB Resume ...
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Dell 3140 - Closing Lid does not put laptop Win 11 in Sleep Mode despite correct setting
I have Dell Latitude 3140 Notebook. It was recently purchased from Amazon US and hand carried to my country. So no warranty is possible now.
It has Windows 11 Pro OS on it. The BIOS, Graphics drivers &...
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NVIDIA USB Type-C port policy controller keeps waking my PC up
My Laptop (HP Omen 15, Windows 10) is driving me crazy by turning itself on from sleep mode on its own. If I put it to sleep with the power button, it will often turn on again after about 3 seconds, ...
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Windows 11 Forced sleep mode?
I had problems with sleep mode/fan noise and found the only thing that worked was the answer here https://superuser.com/a/1697199/1890608
however it seems that this is actually for hibernate mode and ...
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Prevent landscape image + sign in when resuming from sleep with Windows 10
When resuming from sleep on Windows 10 22H2, I have :
a random landscape photo with some information
if I click, I get a "sign in" button (I don't use any password anyway)
How to prevent ...
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How to suspend Fedora 39 after a given delay
recently I started setting up a new Fedora 39 machine and ran into an issue where it would suspend when I boot it (using wake on lan) and then connect to SSH. I think that it doesn't register SSH as ...
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Is it bad for the screen to keep turning on and off many times?
In screen timeout settings, windows 10 has option to turn off screen after desired minutes..
Is bad for screen if I set to turn off screen after 5min, so screen keep turning on and off
during my ...
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Stop Hard Drive from waking up after Sleep?
I use my PC mostly for studying. I take frequent breaks during these study sessions and put my PC to sleep to limit dust entering its case and also to save power. I have an SSD (where Windows resides) ...
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Kubuntu crashes upon sleep on Surface Laptop
I'm running Kubuntu 23.10 on my Surface Laptop 3, and when I sleep the computer, instead of going fully black, it goes black and just shows my cursor, but I can't move it. In order to get back into my ...
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Prevent Windows 11 from going to sleep after RDP session was closed
While there are several threads about Windows RDP sessions and sleep I could not find one matching my use case.
I encounter the following situation. After I close the RDP connection to a Windows 11 ...
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Windows stop all radios when you go to sleep / hybrid sleep / s3 sleep
I am looking for an automatic way to prevent any Bluetooth and/or WiFi connections during certain times. E.g. while my PC is asleep.
Because Microsoft in its infinite wisdom and user servitude, has ...
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Disable Windows 8 sleep WITHOUT disabling screen turning off
To run long-duration operations on my Windows 8 laptop, I need for it to not go to sleep. HOWEVER, I still want the screen to be able to automatically urn off after a time without keyboard presses and ...
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External audio device goes to sleep if no audio is sent from Windows every few seconds
I have an external Bluetooth audio device (UE Boom) that I have connected to my Windows 11 PC through the auxiliary headphone jack (NOT BLUETOOTH). As long as the PC is sending continous audio to the ...
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Black screen after Windows logo. What is happening to my machine?
I downloaded a PDF version of a book from internet archives on my smartphone and transferred it to my PC via Bluetooth, read it for 10-15 mins, and then attended a call from a friend while my PC was ...
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Laptop sometimes keeps running when I close the lid and has black screen until I force shut it down and power it up again
I have a new MSI Katana GF66 12UCO running Windows 10 Home. When I close the lid, I have set that the laptop should hibernate (as opposed to sleep, because when attempting to sleep, the laptop never ...
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Can Windows machines wake as fast as Mac? [closed]
My wife is a Mac user and I am a Windows user. When my wife opens the lid of her 2017 Macbook, the computer is almost instantly awake and running, with everything useable on the desktop. Even at its ...
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Monitors swapping and windows moving on PC wakeup
I just got a new monitor and set it up without issue accept for when the computer sleeps, the tabs get shuffled and the pc seems to mix up which monitor is which. The old monitors are the exact same ...
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PC goes to sleep instead of hibernation
This is my first question in this forum, so please excuse me if I missed anything.
Problem Statement:
Selecting Hibernate option from the shutdown options, the PC will go to Sleep instead of ...
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Artifacts on external display connected via USB-C hub after sleep (+ few other problems)
I wanted to have a setup where I would connect all the devices to a single USB-C hub and then switch between 3 different computers (ASUS Zenbook, Macbook and a stationary PC) just by simply switching ...
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Prevent sleep for RDP client [duplicate]
I am using 2 Windows machines, where I am connecting from one of them (client, Win11) to another (host, Win10) using RDP (mstsc). My client PC has settings for display to be turned off and PC to be ...
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Linux and S3 sleep on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon gen 11
I got a new laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon gen 11, and it doesn't support S3 sleep mode. When in sleep the battery continues to drain, badly.
~ cat /sys/power/mem_sleep
[s2idle]
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How to prevent Computer going into sleep mode after Youtube's "Are you still watching?" is on screen for a while
Just like the question says, I have been experiencing issues watching YouTube through Chrome browser. Basically after a while Youtube/Chrome will put the pc to sleep without warning. Just to clarify, ...
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