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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          edit: post out of date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
                        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:

                        @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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                          • DustinB3403D
                            DustinB3403
                            last edited by DustinB3403

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

                            10.04 Solution

                            1. As you've probably already done, uncheck:
                              "lock screen when screen saver is activated"
                              in the System->Preferences->Screen Saver menu.

                            2. Type gconf-editor in a terminal. Under apps/gnome-power-manager/locks check:
                              "use_screensaver_settings".

                            3. If still asked for password, you can (also in gconf-editor) go to desktop/gnome/lockdown and check:
                              "disable_lock_screen"

                            11.10 Solution

                            1. First try the Lock/Unlock button in System Settings -> Personal -> Screen (suggested by brallan, below).

                            2. If this doesn't work, try the command
                              Code:
                              gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.lockdown disable-lock-screen 'true'

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                            • scottalanmillerS
                              scottalanmiller
                              last edited by

                              This is the file that needs to be edited:

                              /etc/gdm3/daemon.conf

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller
                                last edited by

                                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.

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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:

                                  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
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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

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

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                                    • wirestyle22W
                                      wirestyle22 @scottalanmiller
                                      last edited by

                                      @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!

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
                                        last edited by

                                        Did it work?

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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:

                                          Did it work?

                                          Not confirmed yet, but I'll post when I know.

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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:

                                            Did it work?

                                            Not confirmed yet, but I'll post when I know.

                                            Thanks

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