Screen blanking for physical desktop but not virtual?

[JPUCB]

We have NoMachine screen blanking enabled for physical security reasons. Sometimes our users are connected by NoMachine into their RHEL 8.10 Linux machines from Windows laptops while sitting next to those Linux machines. They want to be able to interact with the Linux machine directly in those instances, but screen blanking is preventing it.

Is it possible to configure the licensed version of NoMachine for Linux so the physical desktop session/console session would always be configured for screen blanking but have a second virtual session the user could connect to that doesn’t?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Britgirl]

Screen blanking blanks the physical screen, and the main physical session is on that physical screen which you just blanked 🙂 If local users want to be able to work on those Linux machines while the screen is still blanked, the product you need could be NoMachine Workstation from the NoMachine Terminal Server suite. This is a family of products available for Linux, and lets users have a physical desktop and a virtual session, one that is completely independent and with which you can interact even if the physical desktop is blanked.

Take a look at the following resources:
https://kb.nomachine.com/AR10K00700
https://www.nomachine.com/enterprise/terminal-server-products/workstation

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