I would like to have my lab workstations logout a session after the person has been idle for a certain period of time. After some searching on the web, I got into
/etc/gconf/schemas/gnome-session.schemas
and set the default value of max_idle_action to “forced-logout”:
<schema> <key>/schemas/desktop/gnome/session/max_idle_action</key> <applyto>/desktop/gnome/session/max_idle_action</applyto> <owner>gnome</owner> <type>string</type> <default>forced-logout</default> <gettext_domain>gnome-session-2.0</gettext_domain> <locale name="C"> <short>The action to take after the maximum idle time</short> <long>The name of the action to take when the maximum allowed idle time has been reached. The Delay is specified in the "max_idle_time" key. Allowed values are: logout, forced-logout. An empty string disables the action.</long> </locale> </schema>
but the system is not logging me out after the max_idle_time. Is there something I’m missing?
Thanks!
--- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State University 265 Russ Engineering Center 937-775-5157 michael.vanhorn@wright.edu
Vanhorn, Mike wrote:
I would like to have my lab workstations logout a session after the person has been idle for a certain period of time. After some searching on the web, I got into
/etc/gconf/schemas/gnome-session.schemas
<snip> Seems really complicated. I run KDE, and I believe there's something in kde->system settings that lets me set that.
mark
On Jun 8, 2016, at 4:42 PM, Vanhorn, Mike michael.vanhorn@wright.edu wrote:
I would like to have my lab workstations logout a session after the person has been idle for a certain period of time. After some searching on the web, I got into
/etc/gconf/schemas/gnome-session.schemas
So, I’ve found that if you want to enforce gconf policies for workstations, you need to put them in /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory. For example, this is how we set the screensaver to lock:
gconftool-2 --direct \ --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory \ --type bool \ --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_activation_enabled true gconftool-2 --direct \ --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory \ --type bool \ --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_enabled true gconftool-2 --direct \ --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory \ --type int \ --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_delay 15
-- Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org
So, I’ve found that if you want to enforce gconf policies for workstations, you need to put them in /etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory.
I tried using that, and it still doesn’t automatically logout. In face, the value I set in gconf.xml.mandatory doesn’t seem to get noticed at all. I set them to different values, and ‘gconftool-2 --get’ still shows the default values that I set in /etc/gconf/schemas/gnome-session.schemas.
--- Mike VanHorn Senior Computer Systems Administrator College of Engineering and Computer Science Wright State University 265 Russ Engineering Center 937-775-5157 michael.vanhorn@wright.edu
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