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    Keyboard not functional on laptop after suspend/wake up

    After more reading... I have decided to go with the old actinium of Keep It Simple, Stupid. I have turned off suspend. The screen will still switch off if inactive (wanted this) and for night time and listening to an audio book I wrote a small sleeper auto shut off program for mpv. This seems...
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    Keyboard not functional on laptop after suspend/wake up

    what command should I run? I ran lshw but it showed a lot.... I found out caffine extension works... But I can't halt suspend and allow blank screen. I am wondering if it would be worth just turning off suspend
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    Keyboard not functional on laptop after suspend/wake up

    Yes I tried it.. Nothing it did not change anything.... The link you sent I looked at it most of it is over my head. I would be typing the commands just to try it and see.
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    Keyboard not functional on laptop after suspend/wake up

    is there a way when I certain program is running to prevent suspend from kicking in? But still allow the screen to turn off? Chat GTP suggested this lua script for mpv: -- inhibit_suspend.lua function on_start() os.execute("systemd-inhibit --what=idle:handle-suspend-key:handle-lid-switch...
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    Keyboard not functional on laptop after suspend/wake up

    I should say I did try installing with an other desktop of Cinnamon first. I thought that was the issue so I wiped and reinstalled with the default one gnome. It made no difference.
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    Keyboard not functional on laptop after suspend/wake up

    Yea took me a sec but figured that part out LOL
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    Keyboard not functional on laptop after suspend/wake up

    The default one gnome Sorry I did not specify this in my original post.
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    Keyboard not functional on laptop after suspend/wake up

    I put Debian 12 on an old HP laptop I have that originally came installed with Windows 7. As I will be traveling soon. The issue is: If I leave the laptop alone and let it go into suspend the keyboard not longer works at all. Currently I have to use the virtual keyboard to put in my password...
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    Struggling to get help installing a working Helix Editor On Debian (For C/C++ programming.) Can anyone help me?

    Tank you for the response... I do not mind building from sources... But I have only done it twice... once was when I wanted to try NeoVim. But the institutions I found were very very clear and was part of an over all set up.... I have not found the same with Helix... So again if there is some I...
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    Struggling to get help installing a working Helix Editor On Debian (For C/C++ programming.) Can anyone help me?

    Thank you. I have herd of it.. I will look into this also for completeness. Thank for responding. I did not think or expect I was going to Go one. So I appropriate that people took the time.
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    Struggling to get help installing a working Helix Editor On Debian (For C/C++ programming.) Can anyone help me?

    So I wanted to install and use Helix editor on my Debian 12 OS. I have read a few ways to install it: #1 I could install cargo and use that. But I have no intention of using/programming in Rust at all other then using Helix. #2 install using ppa. But I read this is a very bad idea under Debian...
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    After installing UFW [skip] ordering cycle found, skipping networking.service, network-pre.target

    Things were messed up enough I thought screw it re-install. Everything seems to be running a lot better now and the issues are gone. The thing I really like about Linux/Debian is it does not take a full day to install and update an OS unlike when I used Windows. 30 minutes and I was up and...
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    After installing UFW [skip] ordering cycle found, skipping networking.service, network-pre.target

    I'll be honest I had forgotten to install UFW and when ahead and installed a few other things I needed first. Then I remembered and so installed UFW. But after doing so I get: [skip] ordering cycle found, skipping networking.service [skip] ordering cycle found, skipping network-pre.target on...
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    Possible to put Linux on old Motorola XOOM MZ604 Tablet?

    I have a Motorola XOOM MZ604 tablet. I bought it in 2012... Motorola Xoom Specs I used it for a long time even after there were no more updates and it was discontinued. I extended its use but switching out the OS for Omni-rom. (Using big part pertation and rooting it.) That was till about...
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    The black bar at the top... Can it be moved?

    yes I just installed the default. I have used Cinnamon before. I will try the extensions first. But I would like to ask.. As another option... Can I swap out the default desktop for Cinnamon if I want to do so without reinstall?
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    The black bar at the top... Can it be moved?

    Will this also let me move the black bar at the top Activities one? Thank you guys for the input.
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    The black bar at the top... Can it be moved?

    The black bar at the top. were the time and things are I would like to move it somewhere. Leta say the bottom and then I need to move the thing with browser and files in it say to the left I think Ubuntu has this?
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    The black bar at the top... Can it be moved?

    oh I thought since I posted in Debian the tread.. but yes I am running Debian 12. Sorry about that. Yes gnome. I ran the command yes asked and get: System: Host: debian12-pc Kernel: 6.1.0-11-amd64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: GNOME v: 43.6 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
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