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 (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?
Yes, there's a well-known API to inhibit power-management for media players. What application are you using to play audio? For example, I know that vlc supports the api for when video is playing, but apparently not for audio-only unfortunately. Reference: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=144664 -- Rex _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org 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@lists.fedoraproject.org
