Re: Password Problem - Solved

["Thomas H. George" <lists tomgeorge info>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 10:10:21AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
> When the gnome desktop signs me out due to inactivity it shows a screen
> with my name on it and asks for a password.  It wont accept my password,
> the same password I used to start gnome.
> 
> I can get around this by clicking the change user button and then
> entering my user name and password.
> 
> Since I am the only user and I have only one password this doesn't make
> sense.
> 
> Now that I think about it, I don't really want the desktop to timeout at
> all.  I am the only user and the only person with access to my computer.
> I'll check to see if there is a set the timeout interval to infinity.

In Main Menu/other/Gome Control Center there is an item ScreenSaver with
check boxes for the following two lines:

Activate screensaver when computer is idle
Lock screen when screensaver is active

I unchecked both these boxes.  In addition, there is a power management
button which opens a window with the lines:

Put computer to sleep when inactive for:      10  minutes
Put display to sleep when inactive for:        5  minutes

The times are pulldown menus; shown are the settings I chose.

I went away for 20 minutes and when I returned the screen was blank.
When I hit the Caps key the screen came up and I was still logged in.
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