[Solved] And yet again, Xfce black screen after suspend....

[frazatto]

I recently changed from Cinnamon to Xfce and was able to make everything work as I wanted, there are some annoying quirks but nothing you are not able to go around.

But this one is showing itself a challenge, apparently it's a bug from 2013?!
The issue is just that, if I (for instance) close the lid and the computer gets suspended, when I open the lid I'm able to type my login, but than the screen gets black and I need to do something to bring it back up.

It pops here and there true the years, I tried the suggestions, like disabling the compositor and avoid locking the session on sleep, but it made no difference and now I have to unlock the session twice before being able to login.
The third suggestion to disable the Intel GPU is not really an option since using just the Nvidia one in this machine drains the battery REALLY fast.

Would anybody like to help me diagnose this thing?
I'm on a Dell laptop with hybrid GPU (intel/Nvidia), Cinnamon worked perfectly every time.
I also use a secondary monitor, the configuration breaks some times when coming form suspend (displays get mirrored), but it seams unrelated.

[None1975]

I'm on a Dell laptop with hybrid GPU (intel/Nvidia), Cinnamon worked perfectly every time.

Hello.

Maybe it would be easier to use Cinnamon if everything works as it should?

[frazatto]

Hello.
Maybe it would be easier to use Cinnamon if everything works as it should?

Ah! The voice of reason!

This is the last issue standing and, if you need to understand anything about a programmer is that, I am nothing but relentlessly stubborn!

But also, Xfce is a more compact release with a little bit less installed and a little bit less RAM intensive, it would be nice if I could make it work properly.

[arzgi]

For me Xfce suspends very nicely, have not had any problems. I don't have any Nvidia products anymore, but they also did not cause problems when used them.

How do you hibernate, do you use pm-suspend frome pm-utils, or something else?

[frazatto]

For me Xfce suspends very nicely, have not had any problems. I don't have any Nvidia products anymore, but they also did not cause problems when used them.
How do you hibernate, do you use pm-suspend frome pm-utils, or something else?

Hum....I actually don't know, it is what come with the installation.
Apparently it is: https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/start

[arzgi]

Same here, checked just, had no pm-utils installed. Resume seems very similar to that when I used pm-suspend.

[frazatto]

Solved with Reddit help......

https://www.reddit.com/r/xfce/comments/ ... are_button