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    • scottalanmillerS
      scottalanmiller
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      What desktop environment is this machine using?

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      • art_of_shredA
        art_of_shred @scottalanmiller
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        @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

        What desktop environment is this machine using?

        I don't understand the question

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        • wirestyle22W
          wirestyle22 @art_of_shred
          last edited by

          @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

          @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

          What desktop environment is this machine using?

          I don't understand the question

          Gnome, Unity, etc

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          • DustinB3403D
            DustinB3403 @wirestyle22
            last edited by

            @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

            @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

            @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

            What desktop environment is this machine using?

            I don't understand the question

            Gnome, Unity, etc

            Did anything like that exist on debian 2?

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            • art_of_shredA
              art_of_shred @wirestyle22
              last edited by

              @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

              @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

              @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

              What desktop environment is this machine using?

              I don't understand the question

              Gnome, Unity, etc

              How can I tell? I have no idea where to find that.

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              • wirestyle22W
                wirestyle22 @art_of_shred
                last edited by

                @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                What desktop environment is this machine using?

                I don't understand the question

                Gnome, Unity, etc

                How can I tell? I have no idea where to find that.

                Do you have a GUI?

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                • wirestyle22W
                  wirestyle22 @DustinB3403
                  last edited by

                  @DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                  @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                  @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                  @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                  What desktop environment is this machine using?

                  I don't understand the question

                  Gnome, Unity, etc

                  Did anything like that exist on debian 2?

                  he said "3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux... so my initial thought was incorrect."

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                  • art_of_shredA
                    art_of_shred @DustinB3403
                    last edited by

                    @DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                    @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                    @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                    @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                    What desktop environment is this machine using?

                    I don't understand the question

                    Gnome, Unity, etc

                    Did anything like that exist on debian 2?

                    If you're paying attention, you'll see that I goofed and it's Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux.

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                    • scottalanmillerS
                      scottalanmiller @art_of_shred
                      last edited by

                      @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                      @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                      What desktop environment is this machine using?

                      I don't understand the question

                      Debian is the OS. But the question here about sleep mode and logging in automatically are about the desktop environment that is running on top of Debian. Each desktop environment can be pretty unique so we have to know that to know where settings for it might be. For example in the Windows world... DOS 8 was the OS and Windows 98 was the desktop environment. As you can imagine, the majority of settings were part of the desktop environment, not the OS.

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                      • scottalanmillerS
                        scottalanmiller @wirestyle22
                        last edited by

                        @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                        @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                        @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                        @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                        @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                        What desktop environment is this machine using?

                        I don't understand the question

                        Gnome, Unity, etc

                        How can I tell? I have no idea where to find that.

                        Do you have a GUI?

                        It's a graphical desktop machine being discussed. It's just which GUI that we need to figure out.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
                          scottalanmiller @art_of_shred
                          last edited by

                          @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                          @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                          @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                          @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                          What desktop environment is this machine using?

                          I don't understand the question

                          Gnome, Unity, etc

                          How can I tell? I have no idea where to find that.

                          Normally it says when you go to log in. Can you log in now? What does it look like? Generally they are easy to eyeball.

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                          • momurdaM
                            momurda
                            last edited by momurda

                            edit: post out of date

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                            • art_of_shredA
                              art_of_shred @scottalanmiller
                              last edited by

                              @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                              @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                              @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                              What desktop environment is this machine using?

                              I don't understand the question

                              Debian is the OS. But the question here about sleep mode and logging in automatically are about the desktop environment that is running on top of Debian. Each desktop environment can be pretty unique so we have to know that to know where settings for it might be. For example in the Windows world... DOS 8 was the OS and Windows 98 was the desktop environment. As you can imagine, the majority of settings were part of the desktop environment, not the OS.

                              I was able to find the suspend setting under Main Menu>System Tools>Administration>System Settings. I can't figure out the "login w/o password" part.

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                              • DustinB3403D
                                DustinB3403 @art_of_shred
                                last edited by

                                @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                What desktop environment is this machine using?

                                I don't understand the question

                                Debian is the OS. But the question here about sleep mode and logging in automatically are about the desktop environment that is running on top of Debian. Each desktop environment can be pretty unique so we have to know that to know where settings for it might be. For example in the Windows world... DOS 8 was the OS and Windows 98 was the desktop environment. As you can imagine, the majority of settings were part of the desktop environment, not the OS.

                                I was able to find the suspend setting under Main Menu>System Tools>Administration>System Settings. I can't figure out the "login w/o password" part.

                                So I know you want to specifically avoid ever having to enter a password again.... but can you simply adjust the suspend settings to something really long, like 36 hours?

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                                • DustinB3403D
                                  DustinB3403 @art_of_shred
                                  last edited by

                                  @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                  @DustinB3403 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                  @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                  @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                  @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                  What desktop environment is this machine using?

                                  I don't understand the question

                                  Gnome, Unity, etc

                                  Did anything like that exist on debian 2?

                                  If you're paying attention, you'll see that I goofed and it's Debian 3.2.51-1 x86_64 GNU/Linux.

                                  salty are we?

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                                  • momurdaM
                                    momurda
                                    last edited by

                                    That is the kernel version - 3.2.51-1.
                                    That means youre running Deb 7 wheezy probably, so not that out of date

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                                    • wirestyle22W
                                      wirestyle22 @art_of_shred
                                      last edited by wirestyle22

                                      @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                      @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                      @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                      What desktop environment is this machine using?

                                      I don't understand the question

                                      Debian is the OS. But the question here about sleep mode and logging in automatically are about the desktop environment that is running on top of Debian. Each desktop environment can be pretty unique so we have to know that to know where settings for it might be. For example in the Windows world... DOS 8 was the OS and Windows 98 was the desktop environment. As you can imagine, the majority of settings were part of the desktop environment, not the OS.

                                      I was able to find the suspend setting under Main Menu>System Tools>Administration>System Settings. I can't figure out the "login w/o password" part.

                                      I honestly don't know how to narrow down what you're using. I never use GUI's. You may want to look for some of the common GUI's:

                                      cd /etc/
                                      ls -l

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                                      • dafyreD
                                        dafyre
                                        last edited by

                                        cat /etc/*release
                                        

                                        Could give you details on what you are running.

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                                        • art_of_shredA
                                          art_of_shred @scottalanmiller
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                                          @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                          @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                          @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                          @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                          @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                          What desktop environment is this machine using?

                                          I don't understand the question

                                          Gnome, Unity, etc

                                          How can I tell? I have no idea where to find that.

                                          Normally it says when you go to log in. Can you log in now? What does it look like? Generally they are easy to eyeball.

                                          That would be Gnome 3.

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                                          • scottalanmillerS
                                            scottalanmiller @art_of_shred
                                            last edited by

                                            @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                            @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                            @wirestyle22 said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                            @art_of_shred said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                            @scottalanmiller said in A quick settings question on Debian 2.x:

                                            What desktop environment is this machine using?

                                            I don't understand the question

                                            Gnome, Unity, etc

                                            How can I tell? I have no idea where to find that.

                                            Normally it says when you go to log in. Can you log in now? What does it look like? Generally they are easy to eyeball.

                                            That would be Gnome 3.

                                            Sweet, that's modern and we can get that figured out then.

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