similar to: Disabling user switching in CentOS 6

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>

On Jun 8, 2016, at 4:42 PM, Vanhorn, Mike <michael.vanhorn at wright.edu> wrote: > 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 So, I?ve found that if you want to enforce gconf policies for workstations, you need to put

I asked one of my team mates to evaluate centos 5.2 as a more stable distro for our business use than Fedora which we have used for years. His main objection so far has been the lack of a neat feature of recent Fedoras (at least since 7) that allows a user to login as himself if the screen is locked by another user (a switch user feature). Is that feature available or is it planned? Thanks.

I pushed out some changes to gwd that makes it possible to properly set an overall opacity value for any metacity theme. Making the complete decorations translucent can look bad with some themes. However, I've made it possible to have the opacity fade from opaque to the selected opacity value in a similar way to how the built-in decorations look. This usually looks a lot better. I'll add

On 01/09/2015 06:07 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > I'm still trying to find the > thing I used back in C5(?) that raised the panels when the mouse hovered > over it for X seconds. With C6 I can't find it anymore and it switches > way too fast. I presume you're talking about panels with "Autohide" set. If you have the GUI gconf-editor installed, it's under

In CentOS 6 gconftool-2 (command line) is used to enable/disable items. In CentOS 7 I found "settings->power-> blank screen" as something I wish to configure by the command line? How is that accomplished? I brought up gconf-editor and searched for power and blank and found nothing. How can I control this setting from the command line? Thanks Jerry

Hi all, I've written a tool that configured Virtual Machine Manager, but I've got a condition that I am now sure how to handle... If the user isn't logged in and I configure their ~/.gconf/apps/virt-manager/*, and then they log in, everything works great. However, if they've already logged in and there was no prior virt-manager configuration, the custom config is overwritten

Hi. I have just installed latest git vanilla compiz under fedora core 6 and I have run into two problems: 1. Metacity theme support does not work. As soon as I type in gconftool-2 -s /apps/gwd/use_metacity_theme -t bool true the window border disappears. I have tried it both under KDE and Gnome with the same result. the window border can be brought back by setting the above value back to false. 2.

I centos 5 I can run this command: su myuser -c "/usr/bin/gconftool-2 -t string --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename /usr/share/backgrounds/images/mypic.png" and this works fine. under centos 6 it does not appear to be working... I can run the similiar --get command and it tells me its set to what I asked for. However the screen is not showing mypic.png I can use

On 01/11/2015 04:19 PM, Bill Maltby (C4B) wrote: > On Fri, 2015-01-09 at 21:02 -0600, Robert Nichols wrote: >> I presume you're talking about panels with "Autohide" set. If you have >> the GUI gconf-editor installed, it's under apps/panel/global/panel_show_delay. >> You can also set it from the command line: >> >> gconftool-2 --type int

I have Windows 7 on /dev/sda and CentOS 6.4 on /dev/sdb. Here are the layouts: (parted) select /dev/sda Using /dev/sda (parted) print Model: ATA WDC WD10EZEX-00Z (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Number Start End Size Type File system Flags 1 1049kB 374MB 373MB primary ntfs boot

Hi, I am not sure if I probably have overlooked some important clue, but I am stuck with a problem with the gdm-greeter in CentOS 6.3 here since three days without finding any suitable solution. The problem: * I have to somehow deactivate the "Suspend", "Restart" and "Shutdown" options in the login screen. * This has to be done in CLI mode, as I have to change

Using CentOS 5.5 x86_64. I am trying to install software that comes on two discs. I can start the install just fine, but when it comes to taking out the first disc and putting in the second, the system won't let me eject it. I remember reading something on the internet once about something needing to be enabled to allow this to work, but I can't find it now. Does anybody have a clue as

When I run X as root in centos 6 I get a nice little message that "your currently trying to run as root super user" and are you sure you want to with a checkbox. I do this for a reason as a post install step, then the system reboots and it never happens again... I am trying to find how to set this checkbox which says "never ask me again" and move on... I was trying to

I just did another compiz checkout and installed but now compiz won't work I'm starting compiz like this: gtk-window-decorator --replace & export __GL_YIELD="NOTHING"; compiz --replace --indirect-rendering --strict-binding --use-cow gconf move resize minimize place decoration cube rotate scale switcher zoom fade screenshot dbus This was working earlier but not anymore. Now

Using CentOS 5.8: Currently on my workstations, when I press the power button the computer immediately does a 'shutdown -h now' (per /etc/acpid/events/power.conf). Is there a way to change it so that a confirmation dialog comes up, rather than an immediate shutdown? I assume that I am going to need to change that power.conf file to tell some program that the power button's been

Hello there! I've recently switched from Fedora 11 to CentOS6. Now my SD cards (automatically mounted on plug) contents is displayed as UPPERCASE filenames. I well see in mount's man that vfat's shortname option can be set to either lower, win95, winnt, mixed. OK, that's for entries in /etc/fstab or when mounting manually. I'd like to change the defaults for devices that

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

According to all of the documentation I can find, an /etc/printcap file (or whatever filename is specified with the Printcap directive) is generated by cupsd ever time a printer is added or removed. On all of my CentOS 6.7 systems, this is NOT happening. I can restart cups and add or remove printers over and over and it still doesn't generate the printcap file. Is this a known issue, or is

On 4/27/16, 9:39 AM, "centos-bounces at centos.org on behalf of m.roth at 5-cent.us" <centos-bounces at centos.org on behalf of m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: > And now, I just >ssh'd in from another windows, same way... and the weirdness isn't there. > >Anyone have any clues as to what's going on with that one session? > > Mark It sounds as if,