[RESPONDED] Waking from suspend w/ lid closed

As many people have posted, this is an issue that is critical to fix— if the lid is closed the keyboard and touchpad should be powered down and absolutely should not wake up the machine. Requiring that the laptop lid be opened and the power button pressed to wake up would be much safer. Those who desire peripherals to wake the laptop should be the ones looking for workarounds here, not those of us who don’t want our laptops to drain their battery and possibly cause damage to the system. This is an issue that needs to be disclosed and addressed.

Wake-up in transit happens repeatedly and as mentioned in this issue and elsewhere can result in the laptop being stuck not-asleep and not-awake, with the only recourse being holding down the power button to turn it off.

That said i’d be thrilled if someone could adapt Victor_Lowther’s script workaround for NixOS; or perhaps as Ryan_McGee mentioned in May, there could be udev rules for both the keyboard and also the trackpad?

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