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It is probably hard to do while the computer is asleep.

• tpmx 4y ago
  As I wrote in another comment; it was possible to disable wake from sleep from within Windows for that particular mouse; that was promising. I don't know if it's possible to execute logic on mouse movements in the Windows sleep power state. Either way, I feel it's something MSFT should spend some time on, given the current situation.
  • sgtnoodle 4y ago
    If there is code running in that low power state, it's likely firmware on a microcontroller somewhere inside the motherboard chipset. Microsoft probably can't do anything to fix that, other than make more robust mouse wakeup a requirement for branding future products as "made for windows". Suspend isn't even usable at all on my desktop when running Linux. The AMD GPU doesn't come back up properly 3 out of 4 times, and then any userspace processes that were using any graphics APIs (such as the desktop environment) are borked. Fixing that would probably save me 1kWh per day. In my experience, I can't even get monitors to power off reliably, and I spend hours and hours fiddling with that sort of thing trying to debug it. Anything power-save related is a mess.
    • tpmx 4y ago
      If that's the case, at least they could make change the default of allowing wake-by-mouse-movement via a software update, as demonstrated by my experiment just now.
      • williamscales 4y ago
        They could, but a lot of folks (anecdotally) do want their computer to wake on mouse movement. Maybe it could be tied to power management mode as a compromise.
        • sgtnoodle 4y ago
          I remember a computer I had 15 years ago waking up on mouse movement, and it was great. My last couple desktops /might/ wake up on a mouse click, if they go into suspend at all on Linux. I assume the general regression in suspend in Linux is due to Windows mandating non-standards based power saving modes in the last decade.