Suspend from terminal

minh

I'm trying to setup a short key to suspend. When using command systemctl suspend, it works, but after wakeup I could not press any key until a mouse click then the keyboard works again. This does not happen when doing suspend by click on Power icon. I wonder if anyone know what command is executed when we click on Power icon to do suspend? It's minor issue but still annoying for me. Thanks

brent

minh https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Power_management/Suspend_and_hibernate

for info but small tab at top-center called 'discussion' has a discussion of user-tried commands and workaround for what you are trying to do. I don't have a laptop so can't speak to terminal command effectiveness, via systemctl etc, for suspend in an arch article but interesting. all variations of what you are trying to do. I saw no single magic key command but you might be led in that direction.

minh

brent Thanks for looking into it. I have followed the article but have had no luck so far.

I found this command work from terminal
dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest="org.freedesktop.login1" /org/freedesktop/login1 org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.Suspend boolean:true

But setting up a system shortcut using this command has the same issue. I think some magic that Power Dialog works differently compared to the setup from system shortcut. At least I found this shortkey <Super>+<Shift>+P to bring up Power Dialog. I will live with it for now.