i get why there's a WM feature that lets programs inhibit suspending the display, but surely that should be ignored if i explicitly lock the desktop
this post brought to you by i have no idea what is inhibiting suspend. also maybe there should be a way to find out what's inhibiting suspend
Somehow my monitor itself inhibits suspend: lock the screen, computer stays on forever. Lock the screen and hit the monitor's power button, computer is asleep in 5 minutes. It's been this way for years including across a clean OS reinstall and I still don't get it.
Cosigned by me, whose windows machine constantly and mysteriously gets in a "go into suspend, immediately wake up again" cycle and then just and mysteriously stops and sleeps normally.
At one point as a teenager, I attended a special-needs school that was a full hour away by bus. I brought my laptop to entertain myself on the bus and between classes. When a class was about to start, I would try to shut it down... but sometimes the teacher would sneak up on me and push the lid closed.
This wouldn't be a problem, except that it PAUSED THE SHUTDOWN SEQUENCE and waste all my battery.
I've had this happen before where I've left my desktop alone and glanced over at it an hour later where the screen is still active all "why aren't you sleeping??"
I think it was my HDMI capture card (or rather the program for it) even though the PS4 or what-have-you was probably asleep itself. Or it could've been Firefox and Youtube, not sure.
