Can connect but screen frozen

[vdb86]

Hi!

My HTPC is connected to TV, which is sometimes on and sometimes off.

When it’s on, NoMachine works ok, I don’t even need to switch to that HDMI port.

But when it’s off, NoMachine stops updating the screen.

I’ve searched the forum and already found instructions:

https://kb.nomachine.com/AR03P00973

I need NoMachine to work regardless of the TV status.

And I need the HTPC to work with the TV without any additional steps required (because of my wife 🙂 ).

How do I set up Linux mint (or NoMachine) to work regardless of the TV status?

Thank you!

[Britgirl]

Hi, so you need to tell NoMachine to create its own display service (without the TV interfering), so what you could try is setting a different display in the node.cfg file of the NoMachine server host.  You can do it by editing the appropriate key, PhysicalDisplays.

In the node.cfg file (/usr/NX/etc/node.cfg) you can find:

For physical desktops, specify the physical display or range of X server displays which are made available to NoMachine connections. It is possible to specify a # single display by display number, e.g. :0, or by port, e.g. 6000.
The range of displays can be specified as a dash-separated list,  e.g. :0-:7 or, by port number, 6200-6204. By default all displays detected as running will be made available for users.

PhysicalDisplays :0

We suggest you set it to PhysicalDisplays :2.

Does that help?

[Author]

Posts