Waking up Linux from USB keyboard
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Since I’ve got a spare old laptop in my hands, I’ve been thinking of turning it into a small media server. The problem is I want to connect it to a TV set, but without opening its lid since the screen is not working.
The power button is as usual under the lid so I needed to find
a way of switching it on without opening the lid, by using an
external usb keyboard.
Apparently there is a way to wake the computer from suspend by
enabling its specific USB port to power the computer. I found a
nice how-to here: https://askubuntu.com/a/1213465.
The script I chose to use enables all the USB ports. I would like
a cleaner approach of finding the specific USB port, but I
couldn’t make it.
After I ensured that the script works, I defined a shortcut key
to suspend the system, mapping the command
systemctl suspend to my