Re: Resume from Suspend when triggered by Lid

That fixes the issue. New issue is how do you get the system to lock the 
screen automatically on resume/suspend?

On 3/17/26 03:13, Oleksandr Kryvulia wrote:
> 16.03.26 09:29, Ben Hutton:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a suspend/resume issue with KDE Plasma that appears on both my 
>> FreeBSD powered laptops. When I suspend by closing the lid and I 
>> resume by opening the lid the laptop will go back into suspend mode, 
>> usually shortly after the desktop has resumed. I usually have just 
>> enough time to enter my lock screen password before it goes back into 
>> suspend. I can resume again by pressing the power button and 
>> everything works as expected after that.
>>
>> The suspend on both laptops is triggered by KDE. I have it configured 
>> to go into sleep on closing the lid within the power management 
>> settings. I do not have it configured using sysctl.
>>
>> Note that when using Xfce and using the equivalent power management 
>> settings within the desktop environment it works as expected.
>>
>> My questions are, do I have this configured correctly or do I have to 
>> use the sysctl way of triggering suspend? Also why does it behave 
>> differently on KDE as opposed to Xfce?
>>
>> This issue has occurred over multiple versions of FreeBSD and KDE so 
>> I don't know what to detail about my system. One is with hybrid 
>> graphics and the other not. They are both Intel Thinkpads and 10 
>> years difference in age. It's not a show stopper at present, just 
>> annoying.
>>
>> Any ideas on how I can debug this? 
>
> I had this situation on my previous laptop too. To avoid this I 
> disabled suspend on lid close in the KDE settings, instead configuring 
> it via hw.acpi.lid_switch_state sysctl.
>