[CentOS] How to disable screen locking system-wide?

b.j. mcclure keepertoad at bellsouth.net
Wed Jan 19 20:47:20 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 15:29 -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:18:37PM -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> > Sean Hart wrote:
> > > On 1/19/11 11:49 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > > I believe that CTRL-ALT-Bksp will restart X, not the computer.  On
> > > restart of X you should be welcomed with the login screen.
> 
> 
> Note that in later versions of X, this is disabled by default--this was
> an xorg decisions, apparently, they felt too many were typing it by
> mistake.  
> 
> 
> It can be enabled with an entry in /etc/X11/xorg.conf  
> (It can, apparently, also be enabled with a Gnome GUI, but not using
> Gnome, I've forgotten what it is.)
> 
> 
> I suspect that in CentOS 6, it will no longer work, not sure about 5.x
> at this point. 
> 
I can confirm it does not work on RHEL 6 Workstation.




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