[K12OSN] Disabling screen saver?
Jim Anderson
netman1 at optonline.net
Fri Dec 8 19:37:49 UTC 2006
Thank you, Petre. I'm going to try this out next week when I'm back at
the room.
Jim
On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 08:21 -0600, Petre Scheie wrote:
> To turn off the password lock on the screensaver, install the gconf-editor ('yum install
> gconf-editor'). Then, in gconf-editor, go to apps->gnome-screensaver, uncheck
> 'lock_enabled'. Then, right-click on lock_enabled and choose 'mandatory' to force this
> change on all users. If you make it 'default' it will set it that way as the default,
> but it won't prevent some smart-alec kid from turning the lock on his screensaver back
> on; 'mandatory' prevents this.
>
> To remotely logout users, run fl_teachertool. Note that you have to do a tiny bit of
> configuration to allow anyone other than root to logout users. Google for teachertool
> and you'll get Robert Arkiletian's page that includes the steps to set that up (he wrote
> it).
>
> Petre
>
>
>
> Jim Anderson wrote:
> > Is there a way to globally disable the screensavers for all users in
> > K12LTSP? Some of my users leave the computer room without logging out
> > and other users cannot log in unless the terminal is rebooted. I would
> > like to also remotely log out users so that there is not promlem with
> > locked files/runaway processes that cause problems for other users.
> >
> > K12LTSP v.5.0
> > Dell Pentium D 2.8 GHz, 2 GB RAM
> > 24 GX1 clients
> >
> > Jim
> >
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