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

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