I’ve using Manjaro KDE on a Thinkpad Yoga L13 since the beginning of this year and enjoy using it so far. I’ve encountered a
strange behavior with my mousepad
I opened a thread for that issue in the apparently outdated manjaro forum. I can’t find the link to it since like many links from e.g. google it ends in “topic not found”. Long story short, my touchpad is too sensitive to use properly. I registers a click at a pressure where it should just move the pointer around. I someone wants to collaborate on that issue feel free to say something and I open a new thread.
and therefore I’m currently using an external mouse. I’ve noticed that although my laptop hibernates correctly when I close the lid it seems to be awake when I open the lid again. I found out that’s definitely connected to the mouse usage since this does not happen when I disconnect or turn of the mouse before closing the lid.
Can somebody help me to fix that and point me to the right direction what’s going wrong here?
I’m afraid I cannot help you with that issue, but maybe somebody else can.
This is indeed due to the mouse itself. Some computer mice are hypersensitive and register the slightest vibration ─ e.g. from a truck driving by on the road ─ as a mouse displacement, and then the screen ─ or in your case, the computer ─ wakes up again.
I am using a Logitech wireless mouse on a desktop machine, and it has the same problem when the monitor is in standby. I’ve also seen it with my previous mouse, which was wired, but it was also a Logitech.
I’ve also been told that the risk of this happening is higher when the mouse is connected via USB than when it’s connected to a PS/2 port, but I cannot corroborate that, as I’ve had it happen with that (same wired) Logitech connected via a PS/2 port as well.
I totally get where you’re coming from and agree with that. I even think for a desktop machine this is probably even a wanted behavior.
But for my laptop I want the “the lid is closed” state to be factor that determines the standby state. So I’m looking for a way to make my laptop ignore mouse input as long the lid is closed and therefore not to wake up.
Disconnect the mouse before putting the laptop in standby; or
Use a wireless mouse that switches itself off after a time of inactivity so as to spare its battery. That’s the reason I myself started using a wireless mouse in the first place.
Yeah, I figured. Maybe another user knows another way. For me, it seems more of a general problem than the specific setup I’m using, but not sure.
That’s what I do now - at least if I remember…
Well I’m not sure, if my mouse does that or not. It a Cherry something something.
What mouse do you use, that has this function? And it stays turned off until you physically press a button or how does it work?
The one I’m using is a now already old Logitech MX-1000 laser mouse. Its battery is not removable but rechargeable. The receiver is what’s connected to the USB port on the back of the computer chassis, and it doubles as a charging station.
The mouse itself goes into standby after a few seconds, and pressing a button, moving the scroll wheel or moving the mouse wakes it up again. It also switches itself off when placed in the charging station ─ there’s a mechanical button at the bottom of the mouse that gets pressed when the mouse is put into the charging station, and it physically switches off the optical sensor.
There’s also a mechanical “on/off” slider at the bottom of the mouse, by the way.
