I have a fresh install of Mandrake 10.0 Community. FWIW, I am using the KDE Display Manager. I have noticed that that, if left unattended for ~10 minutes, it will log me out (taking me back to the system logon screen where I choose my profile and put in my password). It does not seem to be picky about what is happening during these 10 minutes, but mouse/keyboard activity seems to be the key. I have had it log out during the System Update process when behind the scenes activity is certainly happening. I assume this is some sort of security setting, but cannot find it in the MDK Control Center | Security meus.

This is my third installation of MDK 10.0 and my 6-7th install of MDK between 8.2 and 10 and I have not encountered this behavior before.

Note: When installing, I accepted the defaults.

Any ideas?

Blake

Are you logging is as root? This is default behaviour for root.

nope, plain old user.

As a quick test, I created another user called 'test' and set a password. I then logged out and logged in as 'test'. It appears that I do not have the auto-logout issue with this user. Perhaps that is a hint? If so, what attribute can I change in my main user that will remove that behavior (I'd rather not start over with my customizations for this new user)?

Thanks!

Blake

You might like to see what groups the user belongs to. Maybe one of them is causing the problem..

Just a guess.

logs you out? what login screen do you get? be deatiled about it too please.