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Re: How to disable the screen locker on amd64 buster?



On Sat, Oct 03, 2020 at 04:27:08AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> The computer is controlling high powered machinery. Having the screen 
> locker kick in, disabling our access to the application until we have 
> wasted a minute typing on a poor keyboard trying to log back in can be 
> quite dangerous when the machine has a runaway. Anything we do with xset 
> is overridden before the 10 minute timeout is done.
> 

Gene,

You've been asking similar questions for years on various of the Debian lists -
- real time kernel, how to do things on Raspberry Pi, generically on ARM ...

Yours is a niche case: not many of us have lathes hooked up to Linux boxes.

Have you considered not using a desktop environment at all rather than trying
to expect the rest of us to run through problems we don't understand? We're
not being collectively unintelligent but this would be easier if we could all 
get to one topic at a time :)

> Some of us like xfce4, please advise how to permanently disable lightdm 
> and its light-locker. _Forever_. We do know how to turn off the monitor 
> at the end of the day.
> 

As suggested elsewhere : remove lightdm. Maybe work out just which programs 
you _must_ run and strip down a desktop environment / an X environment to 
just run that stuff. That might  take time - and you might not be able to get
 down to nothing extraneous but it would be a start. Pencil, paper and a plan 
splitting things down to single steps or areas of concern might help 
significantly here and elsewhere.

All the best

Andy C.

> Thank you.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett
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