A quick settings question on Debian 2.x

wirestyle22

@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."

art_of_shred

@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.

scottalanmiller

@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.

scottalanmiller

@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.

scottalanmiller

@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.

momurda

edit: post out of date

art_of_shred

@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.

DustinB3403

@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?

DustinB3403

@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?

momurda

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That means youre running Deb 7 wheezy probably, so not that out of date

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

dafyre

cat /etc/*release

Could give you details on what you are running.

art_of_shred

@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.

scottalanmiller

@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.

DustinB3403

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1466504

10.04 Solution

As you've probably already done, uncheck:
"lock screen when screen saver is activated"
in the System->Preferences->Screen Saver menu.
Type gconf-editor in a terminal. Under apps/gnome-power-manager/locks check:
"use_screensaver_settings".
If still asked for password, you can (also in gconf-editor) go to desktop/gnome/lockdown and check:
"disable_lock_screen"

11.10 Solution

First try the Lock/Unlock button in System Settings -> Personal -> Screen (suggested by brallan, below).
If this doesn't work, try the command
Code:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.lockdown disable-lock-screen 'true'

scottalanmiller

This is the file that needs to be edited:

/etc/gdm3/daemon.conf

scottalanmiller

In that file you should see this:

# AutomaticLoginEnabled = true
# AutomaticLogin = user

Just remove the hashtags from the beginning of those two lines to uncomment them.

art_of_shred

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

In that file you should see this:
# AutomaticLoginEnabled = true
# AutomaticLogin = user
Just remove the hashtags from the beginning of those two lines to uncomment them.

  AutomaticLoginEnable = true
  AutomaticLogin = user1

scottalanmiller

Yup, then change "user1" to be the username of the user you want to be automatically logged in.

wirestyle22

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

This is the file that needs to be edited:

/etc/gdm3/daemon.conf

Learned something. Thanks!