On Thu, 2003-03-20 at 10:30, Annette Bonnici wrote: > I am running redhat 8 in a class room situation on about 20 pc's. > On three of them, if the user is logged in to the GUI then drops to the > command line (Ctrl+Alt+Fx), after a few seconds the screen spontaneously > drops back to the GUI login (the original GUI login has mysteriously > dropped out). There is no screen saver enabled. I suspect it is not a > machine related fault as on some of the problem machines I have a second > linux installation (for another class) that behaves normally. > This is frustrating the students no end (and making it very hard for me > to convince them about RedHat's viability on the desktop > > Can anyone out there help? > > Mike Hanratty > IT Teacher > Northern Beaches College of TAFE > Sydney > Australia
If I recall, it has something to do with the SESSION MANAGEMENT in the KDE Control Centre - I just tried hunting it up, but I run KDE 3.1 and some things have changed in a big way there... BUT, what you might want to do is to check the SESSION settings on the machines - even if the screensaver is disabled, there is an auto time-out that logs a person off after a certain amount of time - of inactivity... -- Thu Mar 20 10:35:01 EST 2003 10:35:01 up 1 day, 12:20, 4 users, load average: 0.07, 0.13, 0.14 ------------------------------------------------------------------ | __ __ | kuhn media australia | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://kma.0catch.com | | .\__/ || | | |=================================| | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | stephen kuhn | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | |'. `\ | | | icq: 5483808 | | ;"""/ / | | | | | smk ) /_/| |.-------.| | mobile: 0410-728-389 | | ' `-`' " " | Berkeley, New South Wales, AU | ------------------------------------------------------------------ linux user:267497 * MDK 9.1 * PC/Mac/Linux/Networking/Consulting machine no:194239 * RH 7.3 * Sales - Service - Support - Tutor ------------------------------------------------------------------ ** This messages was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer ** Fry: That clover helped my rat-fink brother steal my dream of going into space. Now I'll never get there. Leela: You went there this morning for donuts. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
