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jjanderson5

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Turning off session timeout[RESOLVED]

I'm running Crunchbang Helium on a home computer. I often work at my desk and on the computer at the same time. My session keeps timing out. I did a search on the internet and found documentation that said to add the lines:

export TMOUT=0
typeset -r TMOUT

to the file /etc/profile.

I have done this and re-booted, and have also tried setting my login session TMOUT environment variable to 0. No luck, it keeps timing out.

Some has suggested trying:

xset s off

I inserted that statement into my $HOME/.config/openbox/autostart file, but that did not solve my problem either.

Can someone help me to turnoff the timeout? BTW, I am the only one with access to the computer, so security is not an issue.

Jim A.

Last edited by jjanderson5 (2020-02-11 22:13:15)

damo

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Re: Turning off session timeout[RESOLVED]

Do you mean the login screen appears after a while, on your Bunsenlabs Helium installation?

Menu -> Preferences -> Power management -> Display and change the timeouts as preferred.

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Re: Turning off session timeout[RESOLVED]

Or maybe Tab Security: set "Lock session automaticley" to "Never"?

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Sector11

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Re: Turning off session timeout[RESOLVED]

OR are you talking the screen goes black after a while?

In your OB autostart file add these lines:

### Stop screen from going black ###
(xset -dpms && xset s off) &

Has worked for me since #! days.

I do NOT have a laptop and do not want my desktop screen going black.

I turn my computer on, leave it on all day, I want my monitor on and seen! 

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jjanderson5

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Re: Turning off session timeout[RESOLVED]

@damo

yes, my problem is that I get logged out and I am continually having to log back in again while I am still sitting at the desk.

@rbh

Or maybe Tab Security: set "Lock session automaticley" to "Never"?

That sounds like it may be what I am looking for, but I'm not sure exactly what you mean when you say

Tab Security: set

It sounds like I need to set something, but I'm not sure where to go to set it.

@Sector11

OR are you talking the screen goes black after a while?

I can live with the screen going blank, but what you have suggested will be useful. There are times when I will want to keep the screen alive, but having to log in over, and over and over has me climbing the walls

Thanks to all of you. I'm hoping rbh's thread will lead me to the solution.

Jim A.

Jimbo_G

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Re: Turning off session timeout[RESOLVED]

That sounds like it may be what I am looking for, but I'm not sure exactly what you mean when you say

Tab Security: set

It sounds like I need to set something, but I'm not sure where to go to set it.

It's in the same place as mentioned by damo, just in the "Security" tab rather than the "Display" tab:
Menu -> Preferences -> Power management -> Display
Menu -> Preferences -> Power management -> Security

jjanderson5

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Re: Turning off session timeout[RESOLVED]

Got it!  Thank you to all for the help.

Jim A.

Sector11

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Re: Turning off session timeout[RESOLVED]

Can you explain what you did in case other have the same problem.

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jjanderson5

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Re: Turning off session timeout[RESOLVED]

I apologize for not getting back to respond "Sector11". I ran into the same problem again recently, i.e. I could not control the timing out on my host, so I was back looking at the problem again.

And a 2nd apology, because I did not keep notes while I was fixing the problem. But, I think I can list the few things that I have done recently to set my system so that it does not timeout too quickly.

1) From the system menu, select:
       User Settings --> Power Management
   In the Power Manager window:
     A) Select the "System" tab and set "System sleep mode" to "Suspend"
     B) Select the "Security" tab and set the "Automatically lock the session" to "Never"

     NOTE: Setting the session lock is a security risk, but I am work on a LAN where only my wife and I have access, and I have security measures in place that secure the LAN. Most notably, there is NO access to my LAN from the internet, not even for myself or my wife.
2) Create /etc/profile.d/settimeout.sh, containing:

   #! /bin/sh
    TMOUT=xx (where 'xx' is the number of seconds of inactivity)
    readonly TMOUT
    export TMOUT

Hopefully, I got this correct now, because I will probably be back in 3 years trying to fix the problem again.

Jim A.

Sector11

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Re: Turning off session timeout[RESOLVED]

Thank you

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