# Setting Perspective Inactivity Time to 0

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-perspective-inactivity-time-to-0/59787>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** perspective\
**Created:** [May 19, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-perspective-inactivity-time-to-0/59787 "2022-05-19T14:59:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![jacob.ramirez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9dc877/32.png) [@jacob.ramirez](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jacob.ramirez)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 2:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-perspective-inactivity-time-to-0/59787/1 "2022-05-19T14:59:06Z")

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If you set the perspective inactivity timer to 0, does that mean it will never timeout?

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**Author:** ![andrews](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@andrews](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/andrews)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/setting-perspective-inactivity-time-to-0/59787/2 "2022-05-19T15:48:00Z")

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If you want to disable it, you can do so here.

 ![inact](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/d/6/d647879f1c9e1b2420ffcf16451cf4487a0948a6.png)  
If that is already disabled see this thread for other reasons it could be happening.

> [@\[FEATURE-13370\] Perspective login timeout and auto-relogin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/feature-13370-perspective-login-timeout-and-auto-relogin/23084/3):
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> Sounds to me like one of a couple things are happening: Your browser’s web sockets are losing their connection to the gateway (bad network connectivity from browser to gateway or maybe the machine with the browser went to sleep). When the last web socket disconnects for a given (browser, project) pair, the session timeout begins. When the session timeout elapses, the perspective session for that (browser, project) pair is destroyed. Since the web auth session lives on the perspective session,…
