Setting Sleep Screen Manually

(reMarkable Paper Pro)

Tested 2025-12-14
RMPP v3.18.2.3

Enable Developer Mode

Official Documentation

Find your configuration

Go to Menu -> Settings -> General -> Help -> About -> Copyrights & License -> General Information -> Scroll Down

Note your username, password and ip address.

Connect to your device

Connect with USB

Make your filesystem writeable

When uploading an image, you may get read only file system error.
scp: //usr/share/remarkable/suspended.png: Read-only file system

To fix, ssh as root and mount the filesystem as writeable. mount -o remount,rw / Then try uploading your image again.

	dskelly@david-ubuntu:~/Desktop$ ssh root@10.11.99.1
	root@10.11.99.1's password:
	root@imx8mm-ferrari:~# mount -o remount,rw /
	root@imx8mm-ferrari:~# exit
	logout
	Connection to 10.11.99.1 closed.

Prepare your image

Download or create the image you want to use as a sleep screen. It should be PNG format and, for best results, RMPP 1620x2160 pixels.

Upload your image

Use the terminal command scp to upload your image.

scp <yourimage> root@<yourip>://usr/share/remarkable/suspended.png

Example:
scp yourimage.png root@192.168.1.34://usr/share/remarkable/suspended.png

Enter your password when prompted.

View your sleep screen

Press the power button to view your sleep screen. You may need to reboot the device with some versions.