Hi, Pressing the power button shuts down the screen and logs me out, as expected. But it doesn’t stop the power draw, heating up my computer while it’s in my backpack and draining my battery to the point of shutting down. When the Framework inevitably shuts down between meetings or commutes, I have…

When pressing the power button to suspend, its LED remains with the stable light, as if the computer was still fully on. I believe I’m also having this issue (running Manjaro), though it doesn’t sound as severe as your case. I put the laptop (and myself) to sleep, and when I woke up the battery h…

Suspend keeps your session in RAM, which does require a constant power draw (volatile memory is wiped when power is interrupted). You may be thinking of hibernation, where the session is written to swap space on the disk and the machine is more fully powered off. Hibernation is not enabled by defau…

Oh yep, that makes perfect sense - I’m just surprised the battery drain is quite so fast, and that the power light never changes to indicate that the machine is now suspended. This wasn’t the case on my previous machines, though some of them did encounter the “I’m gonna wake up in your bag and get …

[image] exelotl: and that the power light never changes to indicate that the machine is now suspended. When the system is in standby mode the power led will pulse. If your power led is not pulsing and is solid, then the computer is still on. As suspend works on Fedora and Ubuntu for me, this…

[image] 2disbetter: As suspend works on Fedora and Ubuntu for me Hi, can I ask what kernel/OS versions you are running? I have been having standby irregularities since 5.16.5. [image] 2disbetter: If your power led is not pulsing and is solid, then the computer is still on. I decided t…

Power button doesn't reallly suspend in Fedora 35, draining battery and killing it multiple times a day

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It sounds the same as posted here.

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Power button doesn't reallly suspend in Fedora 35, draining battery and killing it multiple times a day

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