Disable the inactivity timer

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Is there a way to disable the inactivity timer?

We are looking at using a TV for a “heads-up” display to always display a spreadsheet in collabora, but we need to disable the timer so it always shows active changes.

I found in another forum that this might lie in the map.js but I was unable to find it there.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? thanks

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oh that’s sounds cool : )

so as far as I know the easiest way would be to simply edit loolwsd.xml. In the section per_view you can modify the timeout for: out of focus and idle status.

[...]
    <per_view desc="View-specific settings.">
        <out_of_focus_timeout_secs desc="The maximum number of seconds before dimming and stopping updates when the browser tab is no longer in focus. Defaults to 120 seconds." type="uint" default="120">120</out_of_focus_timeout_secs>
        <idle_timeout_secs desc="The maximum number of seconds before dimming and stopping updates when the user is no longer active (even if the browser is in focus). Defaults to 15 minutes." type="uint" default="900">900</idle_timeout_secs>
    </per_view>
[...]
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Awesome, Thank you!

I wonder if there is a maximum value there, or if I can just set it to something really high.

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The mobile app uses 1000000.

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I am just now getting back around to giving this a try. Any idea where I would find that file in my Nextcloud VM?

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So just an update here, I don’t know if Nextcloud uses some sort of different implementation of Collabora but I have tried the install via the pre-compiled VM, installing via snap on Ubuntu Server 20.04 and manually installing on Ubuntu Server 20.04.

The result is always the same, no loolwsd.xml to be found anywhere…

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Are you using the Built-in CODE server? That isn’t meant to be configured this way.
If you install CODE via the packages, or using a Docker container, then you can find /etc/loolwsd/loolwsd.xml either in your system, or inside the container.

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I actually meant to come back here and update this…

I was finally able to determine that Nextcloud uses a read-only Linux Appimage to install the built-in CODE server.

Once I installed CODE manually I was able to edit the loolwsd.xml, but there actually is 3 places in the file that the timeout need be set… Next time I am logged into that server I will take a look at it in case anyone runs into this in the future.

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Yes, the two per_view timeouts mentioned by @pedro.silva above, plus <idle_timeout_secs> under <per_document>, which terminates the session after a fairly long inactivity period (1 hour by default).