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Questions tagged [standby]

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Ubuntu 17.10 and later: Don't suspend when lid is closed, just lock screen

Since my upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10 there's no option in the settings about what to do when the notebook-lid is closed any more. Before this function had the options "do nothing" and "suspend" and maybe "shutdown". The "do nothing" function did…
user755218
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What are the differences between sleep, standby, suspend and hibernate in Ubuntu?

I'm really confused about these keywords used in Ubuntu. I've a little knowledge about suspend and hibernate in Ubuntu and how does it work. But I've no idea about what are the differences between sleep and standby. In result what are the…
Saurav Kumar
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Hard-drive fails to boot if suspend was activated prior to restarting. Booting a live USB/CD fixes the issue (temporarily)

I am running 12.04 64-bit and am dual booting with Win7, for full disclosure, although I suspect that has nothing to do with my problem. The boot-loader(GRUB) fails to load often and I will be presented with a black screen with a single blinking…
Usagi
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Ubuntu 22.04 : Laptop don't wake up after suspend

I have a problem on an Asus VivoBook 17 on Ubuntu 22.04 (clean install) Everything seems to work fine, except suspend mode : after, the computer doesn't want to do anything : black screen (as in suspend), and mouse click / trackpad / keyboard don't…
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How to set the close-laptop-lid-action?

In Ubuntu versions before Gnome Shell, I could set what I wanted to happen when I close the laptop lid depending on whether the laptop is connected to power or not. Now the default is standby which I can disable in Gnome Tweak Tool. My preferred…
mniess
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Why we use sleep command before xset dpms?

I have the following line to turn my laptop display off: sleep 1 && xset dpms force standby sleep 1: Puts the thread to sleep for 1 second. xset dpms force standby: From man, forces the dpms flag to standby. When I omit the sleep 1 command, the…
user486771
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Notebook wakes up from Standby

I have an Acer Aspire V5 Notebook with Ubuntu 14.04 installed on a SSD an Windows 8.1 on a HDD. I experience that my Notebook wakes up from standby randomly after a certain time (can be a few seconds, minutes or some 10 hours). This only happens in…
Merlin1896
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Where does GNOME Disks store standby settings?

I have been trying to figure out where GNOME Disks (gnome-disks) store its standby settings for HDDs (spinning disks). It is the easiest way to configure this, and works perfectly on Ubuntu GNOME 16.04, but since it asks for admin rights when…
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Ubuntu 12.04 Suspend not working FIX

04 LTS users! If any of you are experiencing the same trouble as I did with the suspend more where the screen stays black after you turn your laptop back on please refer to my fix the last comment that I have posted on this…
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Fix shutdown on HP 530 (kernel 3.9.2 / ubuntu 13.04)

I needed to upgrade to kernel 3.9.3 to get Ubuntu fully working on my HP 530; How to fix black screen after update to 13.04 in a HP 530? However, the laptop doesn't shutdown anymore or hangs when it is going in standby. I did some research and I…
Westra
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VDR service blocks standby

I have a problem with 12.04. The standby function works only when I stop the vdr service with sudo service vdr stop. Is there a possibility to solve the problem?
Stefan Krause
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Getting the external hard-drive faster into standby

Currently, my external hard-drive is going into standby after 15 minutes of inactivity. How can I reduce this period to e.g. 5 minutes? Using Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit with Gnome Shell. Thanks in advance!
DMT
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Ubuntu 19.04: Suspend fails on HP Spectre x360 (with NVIDIA GTX 1050Ti)

I can't get suspend or hibernate or any kind of standby to work with a HP Spectre x360 (15-df012ng) with an Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti video adapter onboard. in the Ubuntu 19.04 Live version, suspend seems to do something but immediately wakes up. Not…
Nric
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How can I only make a specific screen sleep?

I use my laptop with multiscreen: laptop screen on one side, my TV displaying my media center (Kodi) on the other side. Problem, when I use my media center to watch a movie, the laptop screen never switch to sleep mode. I'm looking for a command to…
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How do I close Chrome when entering standby or hibernate?

If I leave Chrome open, it keeps me logged into my sites even during standby, so the only defence I have is my Linux password. I would like to have Chrome shut down on standby or hibernate, and then automatically re-open on resume so that I have to…
Bill
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