Mint 22 won't suspend automatically

I have no idea how to troubleshoot this. Manually suspending works, and it suspends automatically usually about 1 - 2 days after rebooting, then suddenly even the screen won't turn off.

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owenfromcanada@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (3 replies)

What DE are you using? I noticed that under XFCE, I have to use the display-managed suspend option, rather than the "system-managed" one (not sure why there's a distinction).

kusivittula@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y (2 replies)

i use cinnamon. and every suspend option works when done manually in terminal or gui.

eugenia@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 1y (1 reply)

That seems like a policy kit issue. Maybe the system doesn't have the permissions to do it automatically. XFce usually has such problems in other distros, but I haven't heard one on mint with cinnamon.

Another thing to look at is what graphics card you're using. With nvidia you can get some weird suspend issues.

Finally, install a newer kernel to see if that fixes the issue.

kusivittula@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y

i have tried new and old kernels, liquorix and xanmod too, no help. i am using nvidia gpu though, this has been my fear... maybe I'll go back to mint 21.3 as it didn't suffer from this.

supersockpuppet@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Do you have steam running? Lately it's been blocking sleep after even just sitting in the tray for me. This is on arch kde.

kusivittula@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 1y

i have absolutely nothing running and this still happens. even tried uninstalling every program one by one and seeing if it still happens. it still happens.