Stop screen locking in Plasma

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I’m running NixOS in a virtual machine, and after 5-10 minutes the screen locks and I have to type my password to unlock it.

I know how to prevent this by going to the GUI in Plasma and changing it there, but I’d like this setting change to be in my Nix configuration so when I distribute a Nix file to colleagues/testers they get a similar environment as me, instead of having to either keep an image up-to-date and or get them to follow a readme.

Is there anyway I can change this in configuration.nix?

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try

services.xserver.xautolock.time = 15 # default value

and change default value maybe

https://search.nixos.org/options?channel=21.05&show=services.xserver.xautolock.time&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=xserver

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Didnt work for me. I have increased this value to like 8 hours but the plasma screen locks out in 15 mins still.

@clinton not sure if you got this fixed

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I tried Plasma on Nixos but it was glitchy.
Switched back to Gnome with nary a hitch.

Gnome is actually much further along in its Wayland integration,
and to be honest, although it may not be as optically saccharine as Plasma,
it is super functional with Workspaces

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but plasma 6 is coming and it will be the wayland plasma