On Sat, Jun 21, 2025 at 12:58:37PM +0100, Laurence Tratt wrote: > Long story short: Firefox with my old configuration was the culprit. I > don't know how. If it's running, xidle doesn't get X events, and xlock > can't shut the monitor down. If it's not running, everything works as > expected. All I have to do is `kill`/run it -- it's totally deterministic. > > Running Firefox with a fresh config cures the problem; perhaps as I build > it back up, I might find what setting is the cause, but that might not > happen. I haven't changed anything in the configuration in months, to the > best of my knowledge, so I'm not sure why it might suddenly have caused > problems now.
Good news: having redone my Firefox config from scratch has now consistently solved the xidle (and other problems)... > I'm hopeful that this might also solve the suspend issue, but it will > take several more successful cycles before I'm confident about that. ...but the suspend-intermittently-fails issue remains. Laurie
