Ubuntu 20.04.3 desktop (Cinnamon) - SSH disconnects when user logs off the desktop!

[Bo Berglund]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2022 13:29:13 -0500, Bijan Soleymani <bijan at psq.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>New to the list so didn't have original email to reply to.

You can interface with this list using GMANE news instead. This is how I
interact with a lot of mail lists.
Check news.gmane.io with a newsreader and find gmane.linux.ubuntu.user in the
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>I had a similar issue on my laptop, which I just set up for VNC.
>I'd already disabled sleep on lid close, and while logged in, etc.
>So it was fine while logged in but not when the desktop user logged out.
>But it turns out that GDM3 (which on my system handles the login 
>screen), has separate settings for when to suspend.
>On my system I believe the default was 20 minutes/1200 seconds.
>
>I think all I had to do was change the following lines in
>/etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults

There is no such directory on my system....
And it is not a laptop either so it does not have a lid, nor does it have a
fixed connected display either.

>  sleep-inactive-ac-timeout=0
>  sleep-inactive-ac-type='nothing'
>
>There are corresponding lines for battery power, but I probably do want 
>the system to go to sleep after 20 minutes if not plugged in.


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Bo Berglund
Developer in Sweden