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   Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 08:13:50 JST Miakoda

   I've got a weird annoyance on one of my #Linux laptops, and maybe someone knows something I don't... (details continue in self replies)
   When I shut the lid, the laptop goes to sleep. Sometimes, when I open it, and it wakes up, the keyboard doesn't work at all. I can fix this by closing the lid, letting it sleep again, and then opening it. Usually that works on the first reopen, occasionally it takes 2 or 3, and on very rare occasion, I have to force restart or ssh in and reboot.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 08:19:02 JST Miakoda

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     It didn't always do this. I'd say it's been about a year since this started. There seems to be no pattern. I can go a week with my usual habits of closing the lid and coming back without it happening, and another week it might be daily. The only noticable pattern is that closing the lid, unplugging the laptop lid closed, and later plugging it in having not opened it, and then leaving it for hours before finally opening the lid to resume has a much higher chance of unresponsive keyboard.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 08:32:21 JST Miakoda

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     Model: Lenovo ThinkPad 11e (20D9-0020US).
     Distro: Manjaro
     Kernel: Linux 6.19.2-1-MANJARO (though several kernel updates have occured with no change)
     DE: KDE Plasma
     Currently still using X11, but this happens under Wayland as well. However, in Wayland, fixing it is flakier. Then again, this laptop is generally much flakier with Wayland, which is why I stuck to X11.

     I can't remember if plugging in an external while the internal KB is unresponsive works, I don't often have one with me.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 08:33:34 JST Miakoda

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     Touchpad and volume keys continue to work when the keyboard is unresponsive. I don't know if the hotkeys are getting through in that state as they normally don't do their associated functions while the lock screen is up.

     It just occured to me I haven't thought to try disabling the lock screen to see if this still happens, but I'm in an environment where I really shouldn't leave a computer unlocked.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 12:06:19 JST Miakoda

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     • Moss the Bard 🇨🇦🇧🇧🇲🇽🇬🇱

     @bardmoss Yep, https://pdx.social/@hellomiakoda/116275393884377244
     Totally didn't ANY information about ANYTHING! https://pdx.social/@hellomiakoda/116275393884377244
     If only I had given SOME INFO https://pdx.social/@hellomiakoda/116275393884377244 about this computer and the software on it!
     How could I forget something like https://pdx.social/@hellomiakoda/116275393884377244 that?!
     Why couldn't I just give some info https://pdx.social/@hellomiakoda/116275393884377244 instead of nothing?!

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     Moss the Bard 🇨🇦🇧🇧🇲🇽🇬🇱 (bardmoss@autistics.life)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 12:06:20 JST Moss the Bard 🇨🇦🇧🇧🇲🇽🇬🇱

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     @hellomiakoda
     Some of that is hardware and some of that is the distro you're using, neither of which you have given us information about.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 12:09:41 JST Miakoda

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     • Moss the Bard 🇨🇦🇧🇧🇲🇽🇬🇱

     @bardmoss I left Ubuntu and Debian based distros because I got fed up with PPAs

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     Moss the Bard 🇨🇦🇧🇧🇲🇽🇬🇱 (bardmoss@autistics.life)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 12:09:42 JST Moss the Bard 🇨🇦🇧🇧🇲🇽🇬🇱

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     @hellomiakoda
     Manjaro is going through some hiccups right now, the community is complaining that the team is not paying them any attention. Arch in general is problematic. I would suggest trying something based on Debian or Ubuntu.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 12:45:04 JST Miakoda

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     • Moss the Bard 🇨🇦🇧🇧🇲🇽🇬🇱

     @bardmoss PPAs constantly failed, AUR rarely does

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     Moss the Bard 🇨🇦🇧🇧🇲🇽🇬🇱 (bardmoss@autistics.life)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 12:45:05 JST Moss the Bard 🇨🇦🇧🇧🇲🇽🇬🇱

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     @hellomiakoda
     You traded PPAs for AUR? I don't understand that.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 13:05:33 JST Miakoda

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     • Moss the Bard 🇨🇦🇧🇧🇲🇽🇬🇱

     @bardmoss

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     Moss the Bard 🇨🇦🇧🇧🇲🇽🇬🇱 (bardmoss@autistics.life)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 13:05:34 JST Moss the Bard 🇨🇦🇧🇧🇲🇽🇬🇱

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     @hellomiakoda
     I can only read the messages to come across my screen. I saw no links to anything else. Then I did see your post with your hardware and responded to that.

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     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 19:18:11 JST Miakoda

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     • Disco Cat

     @cmdrDiscoCat Curiously, when it does it again, try shutting the lid for a minute, then open again. I want to know if that fix works in Windows.

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     Disco Cat (cmdrdiscocat@eldritch.cafe)'s status on Monday, 23-Mar-2026 19:18:13 JST Disco Cat

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     @hellomiakoda I have a Thinkpad at work which does this... On windows 11. Rebooting it works. I don't have the exact model in mind but it was bought in like 2019.

     It also wasn't doing that initially, for years.