X session locks and I can't find configuration

[acid45]

Hey everyone.

I'm having troubles finding the configuration to disable the 5 minute session locking that has all of a sudden started. I don't know when it happened but one day when I came home the session was black and locked. Watching a few episodes of southpark on a website I noticed that it takes about 5 minutes to appear. I checked the screen saver settings and the session locking settings and the nVidia X server settings but I couldn't find anything that was enabled. I manually locked the session from the KDE menu and it doesn't fade to black and the unlock password prompt isn't the same.

I think I found the issue. Somehow, the Xscreensaver had been enabled. To change this I had to go to KDE->Settings->Screensaver instead of KDE->Contriol Centre->Appearence & Themes->Screen Saver as I expected. It was set to blank after 10 minutes.

[happybunny]

maybe xset will help

[acid45]

I ran xset -dpms and I'm hoping that that was the issue.

The only problem is that when I ran xset dpms force off. It just blanked. There wasn't a password required to bring it back.

The window I'm having issues with seems to be some sort of user switcher that is automatically locking my station after 10 minutes.

It looks something like this(I can't seem to get a screenshot)

USERNAME
username on host
[password entry box]
[switch user...] [cancel] [unlock]

It's all grey with black text and no pictures. It takes about 5 to 10 seconds for it to fade to black and if you hit the keyboard or mouse in that time it won't ask for a password. Only if it gets completely black will it require a password.

I used to be able to find Energy Star Power saving features within KDE but I can't find them anymore. I'm gona check through my user scripts to see if I can find anything.

This isn't the first time things randomly changed for me on Slackware 12. Every now and then I have to su root and run:
'chown -R user /home/user; chgrp -R users /home/user;'
Sometimes my trash bin doesn't allow me to delete files due to permissions and I don't have to reclaim ownership of files in my main home but instead I just run:
'chown -R user /home/user/.local/Trash'

What I don't understand is how can root become the owner of /home/non-root_user/.local/Trash when the only time I send things to my trash bin is through KDE for which all of my deletes should have user id 1001. I don't ever use any graphical sudos except to get certain areas of the KDE control centre.

Something slightly similar happened when I installed some library in /usr/lib. I followed the instructions but upon reboot ldconfig was causing the link I had created to point back to it's original target. All I had done there was updated ldconfig.

[happybunny]

kdm configuration?

I don't use it, but is there an idle setting in there you can see?

In gdm, you have the option of configuration during login...maybe kdm has similar

[acid45]

I think I figured it out. if I hit switch user when it locks the desktop it just takes me back to the same prompt and when I enter the password to unlock it. There is a message box for every time I hit switch user that says "GDM is not running. Start GDM or ask your administrator to start it.[ok][cancel]" I'll look for GMD config when I have time. Just thought I'd update the thread.