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

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

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.
> 
> 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.

I would try

apt remove lightdm light-locker

and either installing xdm or just using startx to get X11 and
XFCE up when you want it.

-dsr-