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!
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Mike VanHorn
Senior Computer Systems Administrator
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Wright State University
265 Russ Engineering Center
937-775-5157
michael.vanhorn at wright.edu