The Cinnamon power management settings on Mint have options to suspend OR lock my ThinkPad when the lid is closed but I can’t seem to find a way to make it do both.

Update: fixed

  • Fuck u/spez@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    Something is actually preventing the system from being locked at all. If I click the lock icon in the menu above the log out button, nothing happens.

    • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Do you have a screenlocker program installed and setup?
      A quick search tells me that cinnamon-screensaver is its name for Cinnamon.

      Perhaps you can also run journalctl -f in a terminal and then click the lock button in the menu, to see if there is any error related to that at that moment.

      • Fuck u/spez@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        cinnamon-screensaver/zara,now 6.4.1+zara amd64 [installed]

        I don’t see any errors at all.

        Dec 08 23:17:01 Mint-Yoga CRON[10491]: (root) CMD (cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)

        Dec 08 23:17:01 Mint-Yoga CRON[10490]: pam_unix(cron:session): session closed for user root

        Dec 08 23:17:18 Mint-Yoga dbus-daemon[780]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name=‘org.freedesktop.hostname1’ unit=‘dbus-org.freedesktop.hostname1.service’ requested by ‘:1.190’ (uid=1000 pid=10482 comm=“/usr/bin/gnome-screenshot --gapplication-service” label=“unconfined”)

        Dec 08 23:17:18 Mint-Yoga systemd[1]: Starting systemd-hostnamed.service - Hostname Service…

        Dec 08 23:17:18 Mint-Yoga dbus-daemon[780]: [system] Successfully activated service ‘org.freedesktop.hostname1’

        Dec 08 23:17:18 Mint-Yoga systemd[1]: Started systemd-hostnamed.service - Hostname Service.

        Dec 08 23:17:51 Mint-Yoga systemd-resolved[723]: Clock change detected. Flushing caches.

        Dec 08 23:17:51 Mint-Yoga systemd-timesyncd[733]: Contacted time server 185.125.190.57:123 (ntp.ubuntu.com).

        Dec 08 23:17:51 Mint-Yoga systemd[1]: apt-daily.service - Daily apt download activities was skipped because of an unmet condition check (ConditionACPower=true).

        Dec 08 23:18:09 Mint-Yoga systemd[1]: systemd-hostnamed.service: Deactivated successfully.

        • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
          0·
          1 month ago

          Yeah, nothing seems related to locking the screen.
          Perhaps try some cinnamon related place and they might know how to get the related info (I haven’t used cinnamon).

    • Fuck u/spez@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      29 days ago

      Update: I installed xfce, which is also broken in its own way, but it allowed me to reinstall Cinnamon which now allows me to lock the laptop, manually or automatically.