How to get rid of auto-logout

Beartooth Beartooth at swva.net
Sat Jun 23 18:05:04 UTC 2007


On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 11:31:45 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:12:21 -0700
> Mike Wright <xktnniuymlla at mailinator.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm going to make a guess that it's your screensaver.  I don't know
>> what it's called on F7 but on FC6 it's
>> System->Preferences->Screensaver. Look for the checkbox for "Lock
>> screen when screensaver is active".
> 
> That may not be quite it.
> 
> Sometimes certain screensaver graphics can cause something (X?) to crash
> and log you out on some computers.  The fix for that is to find and
> de-select the particular graphic screens that cause the problem using
> the screensaver preferences settings.

Well, it was set to do the classic Pipes display -- an old favorite. But 
I changed that to something else. Thanks for the clue, and stay tuned!

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