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I have a Thinkpad T470p laptop with Linux Mint 20.1 (Xfce) installed for personal use and power management is one of the things I dislike in otherwise a pretty good laptop. Compared to my work laptop, a Macbook, the Thinkpad drains battery in sleep mode and I often find the battery completely drained if I happen to not to use the laptop for a couple of days. Since Linux Mint does not come with Hibernation option enabled out of the box, following are the steps I did to enable this option....

Dithering in Chrome after resuming I have had this annoying problem with Chrome on latest Xubuntu LTS1 installation on my Thinkpad T470p laptop where Chrome would get dithering artefacts after resuming from sleep. Installing the latest versions of software didn’t really solve the problem. Following are the system configurations I observed this issue. Xubuntu 20.04 (Linux 5.40.0-51) NVIDIA driver 450.80.02 Chrome 86.0.4240.75 This problem has been bothering me ever since I started using Ubuntu 20....