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 have seen this same question raised in other forums [1][2][3], but couldn't see solutions, so wanted to try to ask here in case anyone knows a way to deal with this. [1] https://askubuntu.com/questions/1165801/dpms-and-hdmi-audio [2] https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/10865 [3] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/issues/451 Thanks, Robert