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Re: [trinity-users] How do I turn off the Logout application countdown timer?

From: Leslie Turriff <jlturriff@...>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 18:32:18 -0600
On 2017-01-04 15:10:04 Sl�vek Banko wrote:
> 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.
	Perhaps that is the case.  I have attached an image of the window in 
question.  This did not appear when I was using OpenSuSE's KDE3 package.
>
> 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


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