Re: Idle xwindows disappear

[Brian Servis <servis@purdue.edu>]

*- On 25 Mar, Fred Perry wrote about "Idle xwindows disappear"
> 
> On a PC running Debian Linux 2.0, xwindows disappear after being idle for
> a certain amount of time.  Anyone have any ideas?  Is there some setting
> in a config file that can cause this?  Thanks in advance. 
> 

Make sure the autologout environment variable is unset.

i.e., unset autologout in your shell startup file.(.cshrc, .tcshrc, etc)

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Brian 
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