Questions tagged [wakeup]
Questions referring to problems taking a computer out of standby, or the 'Wakeup' program, an application that provides things such as weather, wind speed and temprarture on startup.
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Run Script on Wakeup? [duplicate]
Is there a way to run a script when a computer "wakes up" (from sleeping)? I know it can be done on startup, obviously, but the issue in this case is that the backlight of my laptop seems to reset ...
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Wake up from suspend using USB device
I was looking for hours, maybe more, for a solution and i just found it. I want to share it with everyone. This way it will be easier googling this problem to find the solution faster. So, just like ...
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How do I prevent immediate wake up from suspend and/or hibernation from PCI devices?
For a few days, my Ubuntu 12.04 desktop computer has mysteriously been waking up immediately after going to suspend mode.
Since installation, my Ubuntu 12.10 laptop computer has also been resuming ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 doesn't wake up after suspend
Ubuntu 20.04 won't wake up from sleep
Issue:
Whenever the laptop suspends (either due to a closed lid or due to a black screen for a certain time), I cannot wake it up.
The laptop does not respond to ...
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not waking up from suspend ubuntu 22.04
I just upgrade my Lenovo X1 Carbon from Ubuntu 20.04.4 to 22.04. Before, I could wake up from suspend by either opening the lid or by pressing the power bottom. Now, after upgrading, I cannot wake up ...
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Suspend and wake PC at certain time
I want my PC to sleep at 04:58 and wake at 05:15, every day.
How do I do that?
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How do I make changes to /proc/acpi/wakeup permanent?
I had a problem with my Ubuntu 12.04 waking up immediately after going into suspend. I solved the problem by changing the settings in /proc/acpi/wakeup, as suggested in this question: How do I prevent ...
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laptop fails to suspend or hibernate (wakes up after 2-5 seconds without user interaction)
This all started happening after upgrading to 13.10, now I am running 14.04 and still have the same issue.
When I close the lid or I do sudo pm-suspend the laptop goes into suspend for 2-5 seconds ...
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How do I schedule waking up from hibernation?
Is it possible to wake up Ubuntu from hibernation at a predefined time? It should not be WOL, but rather Ubuntu waking itself up. For example, it should do what the app WakeupOnStandBy does on MS ...
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PC Wakes Up Immediately After Suspend
I replaced the button battery on the motherboard and now my PC wakes up immediately after suspend. I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.3LTS.
A user at another site stated that this might be due to an inhibitor ...
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Is there a way to play a sound file when the system wakes up after suspend?
I would like to be able to enable some sound file to play whenever I wake up or suspend my laptop.Is there any way i could do this?
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Ubuntu wakes up immediately after suspend when USB mouse is connected
I have the problem that my Ubuntu wakes up immediately after suspend, not every time, but when I connect my USB 3.0 mouse.
When I start Ubuntu, it doesn't detect my mouse, so I must plug/unplug it few ...
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How do I wake from sleep using a bluetooth Keyboard
I have a Mac book pro, and a Henge dock. The dock is nothing more then a holder that allows you to easily plug in a few devices so you can "dock" your MBP. I also have a Apple wireless keyboard. The ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 freezes after wake up
After wake up the login screen appears, but I cannot type the password to log in. Furthermore, the buttons on the system panel (e. g. to shut down) are disabled, so clicking does not take effect. I'm ...
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Where to troubleshoot wake-up from 'suspend'?
CONFIGURATION:
HP Elitebook 8440p: NVIDIA Corporation GT218M [NVS 3100M] (rev a2)
Ubuntu 16.04
SYMPTOMS of failed wake-up from suspend:
"TV Static"
black screen: suspend invoked by lid-close
white ...
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Ubuntu 16.10 screen flicker after monitor wake up
In Ubuntu 16.10, when my monitors wake up on my 3rd generation Intel Core i7 laptop (HD 4000 graphics), I get flickering on both my built in laptop screen and my external display. It goes away when I ...
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After upgrade to Kubuntu 18.04, System wakes up immediately after suspend. Bug?
I recently upgraded to Kubuntu 18.04 (therefor to kernel 4.15.0-23).
I can't suspend my computer anymore. However, booting on a previous kernel version still lets me suspend my computer.
This is what ...
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No sound on wake, Dummy Output always takes over. 'pulseaudio -k' the fix
When it goes to sleep, sound working, when it wakes from sleep the sound doesn't work. So I go into gnome settings > sound and the output device has been reset to 'dummy output'. Instead of HDMI ...
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Ubuntu will suspend but won't wake up
I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on an Apple MacBook Pro 9,1 Mid 2012 15inch non retina. Suspend suspends it but when I open the lid, it doesn't wake up. I tried pressing Ctrl + Alt + F1 but nothing works. ...
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Standby password
My problem is that every five minutes my screen is getting dark and then asks me for a password.
How can I turn off the password request after computer's standby wakeup? Please show me where I can ...
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How to run a script when password is entered at the lock screen?
To toggle the enabling/disabling of my notebook's touchpad according to connected USB mouse, I used touchpad-indicator, which runs a daemon to monitor connected devices and take appropriate action.
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Laptop wakes up by itself a few seconds after suspend or lidclose
I am running an Ubuntu 18.04.1 with kernel 4.15.0-29-generic, and my laptop (Macbookpro retina 15inch, mid 2015, MacBookPro11,5) wakes up automatically a few seconds after sleep. When I look at the ...
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How to check if my device supports Wake on WLAN?
There seems to be very little documentation about this. I didn't find much more than this page from Canonical documentation for Ubuntu Core: Wake on WLAN
How can I check if my Wi-Fi device supports ...
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How to run scripts on screen sleep / wake
I'm wondering how to run a script when the screen times out and when it wakes. I am not talking about hibernate or suspend, but only when the screen turns off.
The reason is I have a LED keyboard and ...
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How to use a key press to wake a suspended laptop when using a KVM switch?
I'm using a wireless Logitech Keyboard with a Logitech Unifying Receiver plugged into a KVM switch. I created a systemd suspend shortcut to suspend the laptop, a Lenovo IdeaPad. The laptop's lid is ...
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Wake on lan with suspend - Ubuntu server 20.04
I'm using an Ubuntu server 20.04 and I've set up the wake on lan.
Everything is working fine when I shutdown the computer, I can wake it. But when I suspend it : impossible to wake it by the lan.
Have ...
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How to wake from suspend with USB keyboard (16.04 LTS)
I have been banging my head against a wall for a couple days on this...I have read through several forums...etc. and nothing has worked. My machine is a Dell Optiplex 330 which originally ran Windows ...
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Trouble adapting sleep hook to systemd
for some reason my machine has problems with suspension, specifically, it resumes as soon as it suspends. After some research I was able to solve this problem on 14.04 by using the following loop, as ...
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Execute a network script at wake-up with systemd (15.04)
I would like to connect my VPN after wake-up.
1) I have created a script in my home (wakeup.sh)
#! /bin/bash
(echo "Sortie de veille: lancement de wakeup le $(date '+%d/%m/%Y a %H:%M')"
sleep 30
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How do I prevent immediate wake up from suspend (version II)?
This question covers one reason a computer might immediately wake after suspend:
How do I prevent immediate wake up from suspend and/or hibernation?
I seem to have a different one. After a recent ...
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rtcwake: write error
I'm trying to send my system to sleep using e.g.
rtcwake -v -m disk -s 60
and receive the following output
rtcwake: RTC wird als UTC interpretiert
UTC wird verwendet.
delta = 1
tzone = ...
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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 ...
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Disable keyboard input wake up
I want to disable making my laptop wakes up from suspend on keyboard input. I searched a lot and I disabled all devices in /proc/acpi/wakeup but it still wakes up when clicking any button. I checked ...
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How to tell if laptop was woken by rtc?
Say I set my laptop to wake every morning with rtcwake (e.g. echo $(date +%s 'tomorrow 08:00') > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm in a cron job or in /etc/pm/sleep.d/99-set-alarm.sh).
Now, I'd like ...
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18.04 Avoid click and drag screen to access Desktop
Fresh installation of 18.04
Wakeup system displays the time in the center of the screen.
Click and drag to top is needed to access the desktop.
I couldn't find how to avoid clicking and dragging, I ...
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Suspend instantly restarting - editing acpi/wakeup with systemd service
My 18.04 Ubuntu Ryzen desktop will wake itself up instantly after it suspends. I've tracked the problem down to /proc/acpi/wakeup
In the list of enabled services there are two services (labeled for ...
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Wake up monitor from standby and show the screen without blocking further standby [Ubuntu 16.04]
After some time the monitor goes to standby mode. I want to wake up the monitor by a shell script. I already can wake up the monitor itself by xset -display "$DISPLAY" dpms force on. But I only see a ...
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Wake-on-LAN works with Windows 8 but not with Ubuntu
I have a PC that has a Windows 8 partition and an Ubuntu 13.04 partition. I am trying to get wake-on-lan to work. Everything works fine on the Windows 8 partition: I can wake-on-lan from both the ...
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Dell XPS 9370 blank screen on wakeup after Dell TB16 docking station unplug/disconnect (Ubuntu 18.04 and 16.04)
I bought a new Dell XPS 9730 (Intel UHD Graphics 620) along with Dell TB16 docking station, and everything works perfectly, only when I disconnect it from TB16 docking station while in hibernation - ...
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS does not wake up or repond after being idle for some time
I am using a Dell Inspiron Laptop 15R 5537 with 2TB Samsung SSD, 16 GB ram and Secure boot enabled. It was running smoothly on windows 10.
Few days back I had clean installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on the ...
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IP command using to 100% CPU on wakeup
On laptop wakeup I see a process called ip that uses 100% CPU. It won't stop on its own, I need to manually kill it every time.
By looking for it in ps I could find that the command being run is ip ...
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17.10 - Closing applications on lock [closed]
I lock (Super-L) and when I log in again is like I've restarted the computer. All applications are closed and the network is disconnected.
Is that a configuration or a bug?
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Ubuntu 16.04: restore screen refresh rate after suspend/resume
Even after googling, I cannot find an answer to this maybe easy question. One of my computers is connected to the home main TV with a DP/HDMI cable. Everything works fine. The screen resolution is ...
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Why is 'wake from suspend' suddenly ejecting my CD tray?
CD tray has started opening by itself when I wake from suspend. I wouldn't usually regard as a big deal, but my case has a door on the front, and my CD is actually a DVD-RAM drive (not easily ...
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Mouse movement wakes computer from suspend, can't disable it
When my laptop goes to suspend, a slight mouse movement wakes my laptop up. This is bad when I am packing my pc into my bag and accidentally move my mouse. PC stays up during the ride consuming ...
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Automatic wake from suspend when power restored to laptop
I'm using a Chromebook with Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS installed as an embedded system of sorts. I've figured out how to have it automatically suspend when disconnected from power by adjusting the power ...
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Troubles with suspend
I have some troubles with putting my PC in suspend mode.
1. I can't put it to sleep completely
It suspends current session and goes to the log-in screen, it makes all the screens black, but it doesn'...
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Dell Latitude 7490 laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 black screen when locked
My Dell Latitude 7490 running Ubuntu 18.04 (dock with USB-C) goes black with no way of turning it back on, whenever I lock it. Sometimes the screen goes black instantly, sometimes it goes to the lock ...
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Ubuntu does wake up from suspend for no particular reason
I'm running this version
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
Release: 22.04
Codename: jammy
Linux yoga-2 5.18.0-051800-generic #202205222030 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sun May 22 20:...
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How do I reduce usb mouse wake up sensitivity?
Ubuntu by default can wake up by any tiny little movement of the mouse. Even 1 millimetre of mouse movement makes my system wake up. So there are many situations when the system wakes up by accident.
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