Deployment: How to deactivate the Session Lock permanently? CLI or Script

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Hi,
just finished the first attempt to deploy Leap 15.3 with KDE in my organization.
AutoYast and some custom post-install-scripts are working well.

But one thing drives my crazy:

On default the Session will lock after 5 min. Normally I deactivate it in

Settings / Configure Desktop, then Workspace / Desktop Behavior / Screen Locking

How can I do the same with CLI or a script?

I already took a look in the most relevant KDE/X11/Plasma configs, but no luck.

Thanks already for reading this!

Hendrik

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Just to understand you correctly, you can deactivate the session lock using the GUI, right? Please confirm.

The tools to do things using the CLI is kcmshell5, try kcmshell5 --help.

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Hi marel,
thanks for your answer.
The GUI solution is working, but I an searching a way to do the same with CLI/script.

With

kcmshell5 screenlocker

I am able to directly open the Settings Windows with the screenlock parameters.
How do I modify them with this comand?

Thanks Hendrik

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See https://askubuntu.com/questions/803629/how-do-i-programmatically-disable-the-kde-screen-locker

Maybe it needs some work, but I think you should be able to get it to work using these instructions.
Would be good to post what you did if you made it work.

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I found some sort of workaround:

kwriteconfig5 --file  kscreenlockerrc     --group 'Daemon'     --key 'Timeout' '99'

This sets the timeout to 99min, the max value.

I will try to dig deeper in this cmd to find the correct args to disable the locking completely.

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I am just jumping in and did not read all posts above. But often in such configurations, a vlue of 0 switches a timing off complete. Did you check that?

BTW your code is not HTML the real CODE tags are just left of it: the # one. :wink:

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Try

kwriteconfig5 --file  kscreenlockerrc     --group 'Daemon'     --key Autolock false
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Hi and thank you deano_ferrari!

This is the solution I am looking for:

sudo -u $USER kwriteconfig5 --file kscreenlockerrc --group 'Daemon' --key Autolock false

Thank you all for helping me out!

@deano_ferrari Would you let me know where you found this information? I want to learn more of this cli kde settings stuff …

Greetings from Germany,
Hendrik

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I examined ~/.config/kscreenlockerrc and after toggling ‘Lock screen automatically’ via the systemsettings5 GUI I could observe the ‘Autolock=false’ key being removed and added, (depending on when being enabled or disabled). Anyway, here is my current configuration

~> cat ~/.config/kscreenlockerrc
$Version]
update_info=kscreenlocker.upd:0.1-autolock

[Daemon]
Autolock=false
Timeout=10

[Greeter]
Theme=org.openSUSE.desktop
WallpaperPlugin=org.kde.potd

[Greeter][Wallpaper][org.kde.color][General]
Color=0,0,0

[Greeter][Wallpaper][org.kde.slideshow][General]
Color=85,0,255
FillMode=6
SlidePaths=/home/dean/Pictures
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Hi,
I just got something similar to this topic:

I need to activate the Numlock on every boot via CLI/Script.
This is the way to do it via GUI:

Settings / Input Devices/ Keyboard / Numlock at Plasma Start

This Settings corespondents to the file

~/.config/kcminputrc

There is a Entry that saves the settings:

NumLock=0

0 is Enabled at boot
1 ist Disabled at boot
2 is don’t care

Unfortunately this modified file will not work after a reboot to set the Numlock on.

Any ideas to trigger this settings (like the GUI) via CLI?

Greetings and thanks,
Hendrik

PS: Should I opened a new thread for this question? Let me know …

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Yes, in general new topic —> new thread (with suitable descriptive title to catch the attention of those who may be able to help).