<div dir="ltr">I've gotten only a bit farther along in my progress. I've set this in /etc/kde4rc for testing:<div><br></div><div><div>[ScreenSaver][$i]</div><div>Enabled=true</div><div>LegacySaverEnabled=false</div><div>Lock=true</div><div>LockGrace=30000</div><div>PlasmaEnabled=false</div><div>Timeout=60</div></div><div><br></div><div>Problems:</div><div>I've tried removing LockGrace, setting it to 0, setting it to 5, etc. No matter what, the grace period seems to be indefinite. The simple screenlock will present when the activity idles for 60 seconds, but no amount of time afterward will actually enforce the lock screen. Once you touch the mouse, even 3 or 4 minutes later, the screen lock disappears and your desktop session comes back.</div><div><br></div><div>Switching users is the only case where the Simple Lock screen actually forces you to enter a password.</div><div><br></div><div>Any ideas? </div><div><br></div><div>Also, what's up with the LockGrace being set in milliseconds and the Timeout being set in seconds?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks a bunch!</div><div> - Kodiak</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 12:34 PM, Kodiak Firesmith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kfiresmith@gmail.com" target="_blank">kfiresmith@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Thanks again Rex and David,<div>Somehow I missed that I have both an /etc/kderc and /etc/kde4rc file - the odd thing is that those wouldn't be found in my config path I supposed based on:</div><div><br></div><div><div># kde4-config --path config </div><div>/root/.kde/share/config/:/etc/<wbr>kde/:/usr/share/kde-settings/<wbr>kde-profile/default/share/<wbr>config/:/usr/share/config/</div></div><div><br></div><div>Or are those understood to be pulled in regardless of path?</div><div><br></div><div>I'm going to test this addition shortly:</div><div><br></div><div><div># cat /etc/kderc </div><div>[Directories] </div><div>kioskAdmin=root: </div><div>profileDirsPrefix=/usr/share/<wbr>kde-settings/kde-profile/ </div><div>userProfileMapFile=/etc/kde-<wbr>user-profile </div><div> </div><div>[Directories-default] </div><div>prefixes=/usr/share/kde-<wbr>settings/kde-profile/default/ </div><div>[root@gobibear ksf]# cat /etc/kde4rc </div><div>[Directories] </div><div>kioskAdmin=root: </div><div>profileDirsPrefix=/usr/share/<wbr>kde-settings/kde-profile/</div><div>## a non-emtpy userProfileMapFile induces errors in kde4 apps atm</div><div>#userProfileMapFile=/etc/kde-<wbr>user-profile</div><div><br></div><div>[Directories-default]</div><div>prefixes=/usr/share/kde-<wbr>settings/kde-profile/default/</div><div>[root@gobibear ksf]# vim /etc/kderc </div><div>[root@gobibear ksf]# rm /etc/kde/kscreensaverrc </div><div>rm: remove regular file ‘/etc/kde/kscreensaverrc’? y</div><div>[root@gobibear ksf]# cat /etc/kderc </div><div>[Directories]</div><div>kioskAdmin=root:</div><div>profileDirsPrefix=/usr/share/<wbr>kde-settings/kde-profile/</div><div>userProfileMapFile=/etc/kde-<wbr>user-profile</div><div><br></div><div>[Directories-default]</div><div>prefixes=/usr/share/kde-<wbr>settings/kde-profile/default/</div><span class=""><div><br></div><div>[ScreenSaver][$i]</div><div>Enabled=true</div><div>LegacySaverEnabled=true</div><div>Lock=true</div><div>LockGrace=10</div><div>PlasmaEnabled=false</div><div>Saver=kblank.desktop</div></span><div>Timeout=600</div></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks again!</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div> - Kodiak</div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Rex Dieter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rdieter@math.unl.edu" target="_blank">rdieter@math.unl.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span><br>
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On 06/20/2017 10:53 AM, Kodiak Firesmith wrote:<br>
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I looked for system-level configs for KDE in /etc and was saddened to discover no location in /etc/ to make a global override.<br>
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/etc/kde should be supported, output from this should tell you the path that is searched:<br>
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