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Re: [trinity-users] Remove session lock?

From: Nick Koretsky <nick_koretsky@...>
Date: Sat, 7 Apr 2018 12:43:16 +0300
On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 19:23:29 +0200
Thierry de Coulon <tcoulon@...> wrote:

> I'm trying to setup a machine to autostart at a given time, do record 
> something and then shutdown.
> 
> Autostarting works with:
> 
> echo `date -d 'YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss ' '+%s'`
> > /sys/class/rtc/rtc0/wakealarm
> 
> but this seems to work only if I put the computer in suspend mode (if I 
> shutdown the computer does not come back to life). However, when the
> computer starts from suspend, the session is locked... and I am not there
> to unlock it.
> 
> I've searched TDE's control panel without luck. Is there a way to remove
> the auto-lock feature?
> 

Delete/rename kdesktop_lock.As a side effect you wont be able to
shutdown/suspend/hibernate using tde menu.

There should be way to disable this gracefully but there is not.

P.S. The wakeup is not the only thing where autolocking is undesirable.
kdesktop_lock interferes with multiple xorg sessions/screens.


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  Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@...)