Re: Debian v9 and auto logoff

[Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu>]

<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 01, 2017 at 10:20:13AM -0700, Mike Kupfer wrote:

> > This doesn't sound to me like you're being logged out.  Rather it sounds
> > like light-locker is locking your screen, which is does by bringing up a
> > new lightdm instance.  
> 
> But what happens then to the current X session?

When I experimented with this some time back, the current X session
appeared to be unaffected.  I could go to lunch, and when I came back,
all my outbound ssh sessions were still in place.

> A new lightdm instance
> would bring with it a new session?

I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that.

mike