Switching HDMI inputs

[Robert Heller]

I don't either. On my machine I generally bypass all of that "junk" by getting
rid of most of the Desktop Manager crap I have no use for. My Ubuntu 18.04
system has Mate installed, but without the menus, window manager (I use FVWM
instead) and with the file manager removed (I hacked the conf to alter the
"required components" to not include the file manager). The only "visible" bit
of Mate is one panel. I've only ever done this for systems I don't use
personally, but are used in for not-quite-"kiosk" type situations, specificly
things like the desktop for the circulation desk at a library, which needs to
stay up and not cycling into some kind of sleep mode (eg screen saver or
screen lock, etc.), so the people manning the circulation desk don't have to
deal with that if things get quiet and then busy again.

At Wed, 26 Oct 2022 16:42:29 -0400 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Thanks Robert - how do you do that from the command line ?
> some gconftool most likely but I dont know the path ??
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Jerry
> 
> On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 3:20 PM Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> 
> > I believe that is part of the screen saver / screen lock settings on the
> > "power management" setting screen.  You want to turn off the screen saver
> > and/or the screen lock (or set things to "never" -- there are settings for
> > how much idle time until screen saver and screen lock, etc.).  I believe
> > included in there are settings to auto logout of "idle" screens, again
> > either
> > disable it or set the timeout to "never".
> >
> > At Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:29:50 -0400 Jerry Geis wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > So I have a display running 20.04 LTS, it boots up - logs in and displays
> > > what I need.
> > >
> > > If someone changes the HDMI input from 1 to 2 lets say - then some time
> > > later its switch back to the original Hdmi1 - it is asking to re-login ?
> > >
> > > How do I turn that feature off ? I just want it to go back to hdmi-1 and
> > > just display what is present - dont log that user out - or dont ask to
> > > re-login - what ever.
> > >
> > > How do I disable that ?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > jerry
> > >
> >
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