On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 14:03:45 -0000 "Robert Mihaly" <rob@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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 (power saving I > guess) and the audio switches back to the internal speakers. I use > Fedora Workstation 31, Gnome 3.34.1, PulseAudio 13.0, Kernel 5.3.11. > > Does anyone know about a way to prevent turning off the external > monitor when audio is being played through the HDMI port? I would > still like to have the lock screen, even blanking it, but without > turning it off and keep using the external monitor speakers. > Currently I use Spotify from Flathub for playing music and when I > make a break and leave the music on, after few minutes it switches > back to the internal speakers, that have worse quality especially if > I am away from the machine. 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. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
