Re: Prevent turning off external monitor when playing audio though HDMI

2019-11-26 Thread Rex Dieter
Robert Mihaly wrote: > I'll try to ask over at Spotify as well. Is this[1] the API you > mentioned? > > [1]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/inhibit/ I believe so, yes. -- Rex ___ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org

Re: Prevent turning off external monitor when playing audio though HDMI

2019-11-23 Thread Robert Mihaly
On Sat, 2019-11-23 at 12:39 -0700, stan via users wrote: > No, I meant the setting in the screensaver itself. It separates > into > three timers under 'Display Power Management': > Standby after xxx minutes > Suspend after xxx minutes > Off after xxx minutes > > But, I see now that it is Xsc

Re: Prevent turning off external monitor when playing audio though HDMI

2019-11-23 Thread stan via users
On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 16:40:48 +0100 Robert Mihaly wrote: > I think you mean this setting: > > $ gsettings describe org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay > The number of seconds of inactivity before the session is considered > idle. > > Yeah, I guess I could use that to disable the screen saver, b

Re: Prevent turning off external monitor when playing audio though HDMI

2019-11-23 Thread Robert Mihaly
On Sat, 2019-11-23 at 08:00 -0700, stan via users wrote: > I notice in the screensaver preferences, the advanced tab, that a > timeout can be set for turning off the power to the device. Perhaps > you could use that? I haven't tried this, so don't know if it will > work. I think you mean this se

Re: Prevent turning off external monitor when playing audio though HDMI

2019-11-23 Thread Robert Mihaly
On Sat, 2019-11-23 at 09:26 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > What application are you using to play audio? I am using Spotify from Flathub, couldn't find anything in the application settings. Is there perhaps another spotify client that supports the inhibit power-management functionality? Or do other mu

Re: Prevent turning off external monitor when playing audio though HDMI

2019-11-23 Thread Rex Dieter
Robert Mihaly wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have an external monitor connected via HDMI which has better sounding > speakers than the internal ones. Sometimes I leave the machine idle while > keep playing audio on it, but shortly after the lock screen kicks the > external monitor is turned off (pow

Re: Prevent turning off external monitor when playing audio though HDMI

2019-11-23 Thread stan via users
On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 14:03:45 - "Robert Mihaly" wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have an external monitor connected via HDMI which has better > sounding speakers than the internal ones. Sometimes I leave the > machine idle while keep playing audio on it, but shortly after the > lock screen kicks t

Prevent turning off external monitor when playing audio though HDMI

2019-11-23 Thread Robert Mihaly
Hi everyone, I have an external monitor connected via HDMI which has better sounding speakers than the internal ones. Sometimes I leave the machine idle while keep playing audio on it, but shortly after the lock screen kicks the external monitor is turned off (power saving I guess) and the audi