[kwlug-disc] Mouse waking up laptop from sleep

Andrew Kohlsmith (mailing lists account) aklists at mixdown.ca
Wed Jun 24 11:47:32 EDT 2020


Good morning< Khalid,

> On Jun 23, 2020, at 1:49 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:
> The new (to me) laptop was waking up from sleep whenever the wireless mouse was moved. That was very annoying.
> The solution is to disable wakeup for that specific device. To do this, I have a small script, and I invoke it on boot from cron.

Wow, this is a great tip, thanks for sharing! I wonder if it could be done automatically when the USB device is “connected” rather than through cron.

-A.






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