In the last couple weeks, I’ve had a few random incidents where I would open my laptop, use it for about 15 seconds, and it would randomly go to sleep. When I turn it back on, it would go back to sleep after another 15 seconds or so. I can only break the cycle if I power down my laptop all the way or type sudo reboot in the terminal before the 15 seconds is up.
Following the reboot, a KWin crash handler window appears saying KWin has unexpectedly closed. I don’t think it’s the same application crashing every time, but I can’t remember which apps crashed the first couple times this happened. I usually have Vivaldi, Ghostty, and Razer Settings open and those haven’t had a KWin crash. I think it’s been a text editor or IDE that crashed so far.
I have also noticed that this has only happened when my laptop isn’t plugged in, and it’s on battery. That could just be a coincidence, but there are settings for my laptop to go to sleep after a few minutes when on battery, so it’s possible it could be related.
This isn’t a big deal since I can just reboot to make the problem temporarily go away, but it’s a little annoying, and I don’t even know where to start troubleshooting it. Any help or advice is appreciated.
Thanks!