Laptop does not suspend when lid is closed

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My laptop does not suspend when I close the lid. It’s a Lenovo X1C Carbon.

The lid closing is properly detected as logged by journalctl:

May 06 20:49:42 nixos systemd-logind[917]: Lid closed.
May 06 20:49:44 nixos systemd-logind[917]: Lid opened.

I set

services.logind.lidSwitch = "suspend";

I tried to suspend manually and it works fine.

systemctl suspend

Any advice?

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are you using a desktop environment? i am having an issue similar to this recently too after switching from kde to niri and haven’t had time/motivation to look into it yet

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I’m using xfce4 and it looks like it’s intercepting the logind lid events and doing its own thing. There is supposed to be a way to tell xfce4 to not do that, but so far, no luck getting it to work.

My guess is niri is trying to handle those events for you.

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specifically niri has a lid open and lid closed event… they don’t trigger for me! i would throw a systemctl suspend in there if they did fire

soon my patience will run thin and i’ll spend a few minutes to look into and (hopefully quickly) resolve this, i’m sure