Re: Debian v9 and auto logoff

[tony mollica <tjm3@threedogs.net>]

My programs were also still in place but they stopped processing until I 
logged back in via the light-locker screen.  After that, the processing 
re-started (evidenced by the printer continuing merrily on it's way) and 
then I continued to log into the full desktop through the 
mate-screensaver lock.  From the stuff I read the intent of the 
light-locker was security based so as not to allow switching into 
another terminal for whatever reason if you had physical access to the 
machine.  I have no idea how that's done, or maybe we're not configuring 
it correctly.  Like I indicated earlier, the source appears to have a 
facility for a light-locker.conf file but I found none on my system and 
I can't read the code well enough to figure out what parameters can be 
used, much less what they do.

tony

On 07/02/2017 06:01 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> <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