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id="logout-automatic">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="login#management" />
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<link type="seealso" xref="dconf-lockdown" />
<link type="seealso" xref="login-automatic" />
<revision pkgversion="3.12" date="2014-06-18" status="review"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Ekaterina Gerasimova</name>
<email>kittykat3756@gmail.com</email>
<years>2013</years>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Petr Kovar</name>
<email>pknbe@volny.cz</email>
<years>2014</years>
</credit>
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<desc>End an idle user session.</desc>
</info>
<title>Configure automatic logout</title>
<p>User sessions that have been idle for a specific period of time can be
ended automatically. You can set different behaviour based on whether the
machine is running from a battery or from mains power by setting the
corresponding <sys its:translate="no">dconf</sys> key, then locking it.</p>
<note style="warning">
<p>Keep in mind that users can potentially lose unsaved data if an idle
session is automatically ended.</p>
</note>
<steps>
<title>Set automatic logout for a mains powered machine</title>
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<item>
<p>Create a <code>local</code> database for machine-wide settings in
<file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-autologout</file>:</p>
<listing>
<code>
[org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power]
# Set the timeout to 900 seconds when on mains power
sleep-inactive-ac-timeout=900
# Set action after timeout to be logout when on mains power
sleep-inactive-ac-type='logout'
</code>
</listing>
</item>
<item>
<p>Override the user's setting and prevent the user from changing it in
<file>/etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks/autologout</file>:</p>
<listing>
<code>
# Lock automatic logout settings
/org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power/sleep-inactive-ac-timeout
/org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power/sleep-inactive-ac-type
</code>
</listing>
</item>
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</steps>
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should recommend this instead of listing the terms here. See
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=668232 -->
<p>The following GSettings keys are of interest:</p>
<terms>
<item>
<title><code>org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.sleep-inactive-ac-timeout</code></title>
<p>The number of seconds that the computer needs to be inactive before it
goes to sleep if it is running from AC power.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title><code>org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.sleep-inactive-ac-type</code></title>
<p>What should happen when the timeout has passed if the computer is
running from AC power.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title><code>org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.sleep-inactive-battery-timeout</code></title>
<p>The number of seconds that the computer needs to be inactive before it
goes to sleep if it is running from battery power.</p>
</item>
<item>
<title><code>org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power.sleep-inactive-battery-type</code></title>
<p>What should happen when the timeout has passed if the computer is
running from battery power.</p>
</item>
</terms>
<p>You can run <cmd>gsettings range</cmd> on a key for a list of values which
you can use. For example: </p>
<screen>$ <input>gsettings range org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power sleep-inactive-ac-type</input>
enum
'blank' # blanks the screen
'suspend' # suspends the system
'shutdown' # starts a standard shutdown procedure
'hibernate' # hibernates the system
'interactive' # shows a pop-up query asking the user what to do
'nothing' # does nothing
'logout' # log out from the session</screen>
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