gnome logs out after pause? [feisty]

[Matt Price]

On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 20:59 -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> hi,
> 
> running feisty and updating regurlarly i've recently run into an odd
> problem.  it seems that my gnome session logs out spontaneously every
> time i step away from the computer for a few minutes.  i had been having
> some difficulty with beryl and compiz and at first i thought this was
> parto f that ongoing problem, but i find it persists even with all
> compiz/beryl packages removed and that it also occurs even when i log in
> to the 'failsafe gnome' session at the gdm prompt.  
> 
> i'm now trying kdm out and the problem seems not to uccur under kdm.  

er, i man, 'i'm not tryng KDE out'  .  sorry 
m



> so
> i'm wondering whether there's some 'auto-logout' switch in gnome that
> has inadvertently been activated.  anyone ever seen this behaviour?
> it's highly irritating, all the more so as i'm used to staying logged in
> to the same session for weeks at a time, suspending my laptop in
> between; so among other things it takes a while to restart all the
> programs from the last session.
> 
> anyway thanks as always for the help,
> 
> matt
> 
> 
>  
-- 
Matt Price
History Dept
University of Toronto
matt.price at utoronto.ca
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