On 01/03/2017 09:19 PM, 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 only see a countdown timer once in a while when some program refuses to close. Is that what you're talking about? If so, best solution would probably be to identify the offending program and shut it down first. -- PGP key: http://homestead-products.com/pubkey.htm