Hello again everyone,

I have another problem. At first I thought that it was a problem with my cordless mouse because I had just done an upgrade to my slackware current. But on further investigation I found that it was elogind locking my session because I had been away from my computer for a few minutes. I can work around the problem by going to another virtual terminal, logging in as root and using the loginctl command "list-sessions" to find the locked session id and then using the loginctl command "unlock-session" with the session id to be unlocked. And then my mouse magically starts working again.

I am hoping that there is someone here who has more knowledge of elogind and can advise me if there is a change that I can make to its configuration to stop it locking my session when I am away from my computer for a few minutes ?

Thank You.

Have a look at System Settings ( I'm assuming you are running KDE ) and type 'lock' in the search box. You should see 'Screen Locking'. Change the settings as you need them. You can turn off Automatic screen locking if you like.

Thank you for your reply camorri. However, I am using xfce not KDE. I suppose that I should have said in my original question that I am using xfce.

I did try KDE, and did the unlocking in the settings as you suggested, and KDE seems to work fine and not lock the desktop session. I then went back to xfce and I still have the problem with the session locking.

In xfce "Settings Manager" I have turned off the lock settings in "Power Manager" - "System Security" "Lock screen when system is going to sleep" and in "Display" I have set the timeouts for "Blank", "Put to sleep" and "Switch off" to 60 minutes. And in "Session and Startup" I have disabled "Lock screen before sleep". I did all of these before posting my question.

I would like to keep using xfce if the session locking can be fixed.

Some thoughts. In XFCE Settings, there are Xscreensaver and xfce4-screensaver. Have you looked in there for a setting that locks your screen?

To make things more interesting, Slackware has a program called xlockmore. You can lock your screen by entering the command xlock in a terminal or from Alt + F2 and type xlock.

Could you try each one, and find out which program is locking the screen? That might get us closer to understanding what is going on.

In /etc/elogind/logind.conf there is the "IdleAction=" and "IdleActionSec=" settings. By default elogind has it set to "ignore" so elogind shouldn't be doing that if its unmodified from stock install. Still check that config though. Maybe the IdleAction was changed to "lock" at some point in time?

I haven't modified my elogind install on my machines and everything is commented out in that conf file.

Thanks camorri, It was in xfce4-screensaver. Under the "Lock Screen" tab. The "Enable Lock Screen" slider was on so I disabled it and that has solved the problem.

I would never have thought of looking in either of the the screensavers settings. And as loginctl fixed the problem I assumed that elogind was the cause of the problem.

OXBF - I have not changed the default settings in /etc/elogind/logind.conf (all still commented out) but that was the first place that I looked for a solution to my problem.

Thanks again for your help. I can sit and have a drink and a bite to eat at the computer without it locking up on me !

Glad to help.