On Sat, 23 Nov 2019 14:03:45 -0000
"Robert Mihaly" <rob(a)mihalyr.com> 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.