Re: if left idle i get logged out
On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 04:51:42PM +0000, Brett Hennig wrote:
> hi,
> warning: vague question from someone who doesn't
> really know what they're doing :-/
>
> i've just gathered the courage to upgrade to woody and
> all has gone well, except that if i leave my machine
> idle for about 20 minutes it logs me out and kills all
> my processes. (i did have some trouble setting the
> XF86Config-4 file to get a readable screen.)
>
> i guess this is the kdm crashing or something (but
> actually have no idea). i looked at the Xfree86.0.log
> and the kdm.log but they don't tell me anything. i
> tried using xset to turn the screensave off but it
> didn't help, and i installed the xscreensaver package
> in case that was the problem, but it wasn't.
Does the problem occur if you start X without using your display
manager? Try changing to a text-console, stopping your display manager
(/etc/init.d/?dm stop) and using 'startx'.
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Jon Dowland
http://jon.dowland.name/
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