Auto logout Console user from KDE

David Kramer david at thekramers.net
Tue May 11 20:35:04 EDT 2004


On Tuesday 11 May 2004 2:32 pm, alaric at angeldustrial.com wrote:
> Hi, I have a old 266 running Red hat Fedora that we set up as a community
> computer where my roommates can log on and check email in the common area
> of the house. Unfortunately my roommates are extremely bad at logging out!
> I ran a few goggle searches and found the TMOUT=  command that lets me
> timeout a Bash session but that doesn't logout the X session. Is there a
> similar command that would let me time out a user after they have been idle
> after X amount of time?

The best way to handle this is to password-protect the screensaver.  Just 
check off that box and you're done.

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