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Hi Friends, I am trying to configure screensavers settings on Gnome and KDE running Centos 5.x 32-bit environment. I need to prepare a script which will be push by Puppet and this script should be able to change settings like idle_delay, set customized password-protected screen saver, enabling lock etc.. I have tried below commands for Gnome and somehow the settings are not taking place. The users screensavers setting remains the same. Gnome Settings: gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandat...

...led true # gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type boolean --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_activation_enabled true # gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type int --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_delay 20 The first two commands work, in the screensaver-preferences window, these settings get grayed-out. But the idle_delay 20 command does not work, users can still change the setting to let's say 1 minute. Does anybody know how to do this? Greetings, J. -- Johan Vermeulen IT-medewerker Ca...

Dear All, I'm using Centos6 with Gnome Desktops. As far as I can tell the default idle timeout is 5 minutes. I try to set this to 15 minutes with this command: gconftool-2 --direct --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory --type int --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_delay 15 This doesn't change the value in System-Preferences-Screensaver. And when timing the idle-timeout, it's still 5 minutes. Opening gconf-editor, I cannot find the standard 5 minutes, the standard here is 10 minutes under /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_delay What am I doing wrong? Greet...

...ctivation_enabled true gconftool-2 --direct \ --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory \ --type bool \ --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/lock_enabled true gconftool-2 --direct \ --config-source xml:readwrite:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory \ --type int \ --set /apps/gnome-screensaver/idle_delay 15 -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

I would like to have my lab workstations logout a session after the person has been idle for a certain period of time. After some searching on the web, I got into /etc/gconf/schemas/gnome-session.schemas and set the default value of max_idle_action to ?forced-logout?: <schema> <key>/schemas/desktop/gnome/session/max_idle_action</key>