On Wednesday 04 of January 2017 21:50:00 Dave Lers wrote: > Dave Lers wrote: > > Leslie Turriff wrote: > >> This countdown timer serves no useful purpose for me, since I'm > >> the only user of my machine. How can I turn it off so my logout > >> completes more quickly? > > > > I cannot remember/find anything with a timer. The attached image > > settings turns my PC off when I click Log Out. With Confirm Logout > > selected I also have to hit enter (or click an option), but no timer. > > ...None of the TDM Session Manager options invoke a logout countdown > timer. I'm wondering if the OP is using a different display manager, > e.g. KDM which has such a timer. > Here is one possibility - if the user instead of the classic Trinity menu uses Kickoff menu, there is a countdown at logout / reboot / shutdown. To my knowledge, to set delay for logout / reboot / shutdown there are no items in the UI. It is necessary to make an entry in the configuration file kdeglobals, section General, variables confirmLogoutDelay, confirmRebootDelay and confirmShutdownDelay. Cheers -- Slávek