Help customising Fedora for my grandfather.

Simon Perreault nomis80 at nomis80.org
Sat Dec 27 16:07:08 UTC 2003


On December 27, 2003 10:59, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Is there a way for him to be automatically logged out after a certain
> period of inactivity, like 15 minutes? This way he can simply walk away
> from the machine and won't need to log out. I mean, why force someone to
> log out in the first place? There are situations when you don't want to
> bother with that stuff, and this seems like one of them.

Because logging out usually causes unsaved stuff to be lost? You can instead 
set up the screensaver to come up after 15 minutes and require a password.

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