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Windows 8 resets resolution at logout
My Inspiron desktop has an Intel graphics card and Windows 8 x64. I want my screen resolution to stay at 1280x1024, but every time I logout it gets reset to 800x600. When I log back in, I have to go ...
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Windows 7 - How to run a script at shutdown but not at logoff
I was wondering if anyone knows how to configure a Windows 7 x64 Enterprise install that is on a domain to run a script if the user attempts to shutdown the computer - but I dont want the script to ...
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Arch logout issue
I'm using Arch linux. As you know, each new update can bring troubles to the system and i think that happend to my system. For few weeks now sometimes i can't reboot / shutdown my system properly - ...
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How to disconnect from shared computer when logged in through Windows Explorer
Every time I need to access a remote computer through Windows Explorer I need to log in and that's fine.
Once I enter the log in credentials I can access all shared folders to the remote computer.
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linux - add requirement for password to log out (XFCE4.8)
I often leave a shared computer unattended and logged in at home. My housemate can also log in, pushing my session to the background, but in order to do this they often log my session out by mistake. ...
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OS X Lion Still Broken: root user account will not logout, shutdown, or restart
Is there a fix for the Lion Root User Logout Problem? After logging into the root user on Lion I cannot logout by choosing logout, I cannot shut down the computer by choosing shut down, I cannot ...
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Run program on kde logout
I have created a backup script and I want to run it in a terminal window (to view the progress) when I logout from kde. I used the autostart feature and that works but I'm unable to show a terminal ...
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Run script when shutting down Ubuntu before the logged in user is logged out
I'm writing a script to backup some local directories on a Unix machine (Ubuntu) to a Samba drive. The script works fine and I've got it running at shutdown and restart using the method described at ...
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Chrome logs me out of everything when I exit--tried cookie-related stuff already
I've been using Chrome very successfully for a long time. It has always kept me logged in to all my sites even after exiting the app. Recently it started logging me out of everything when I exit ...
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AppleScript to logoff Mac user after closing an application?
I've configured a local user account on an iMac (Lion) to immediately launch Firefox to a specific page after logging in – the page contains a survey to be completed by the user. This works fine.
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Logging out of an RDP session with some program other than explorer.exe as the shell?
How do you log out of an RDP session when they are using some program other than explorer.exe as the shell? Normally I use the start menu to log out of an RDP session, but in this case msaccess.exe ...
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Is it possible to run an interactive script before shutdown Linux in a GNOME session?
I wrote some utility interactive scripts and want them run before shutdown.
For a terminal-login session, I just add some entry in ~/.bash_logout, my login shell is bash BTW, which works. However, I ...
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Gnome3 session logout
With gnome 2 there was the possibility to logout from a session by executing
gnome-session-save --force-logout
Unfortunately this gnome-session-save doesn't exist in Gnome3. Is there a different ...
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Run a .bat file upon logoff, windows XP, no domain controller
I have a standalone windows XP machine which is using pGina 1.8.8 to authenticate. Users log in using a single-sign-on ID (from LDAP) and are then logged into windows XP pro. I have a batch file which ...
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Graceful logout in dwm
I want dwm to close all windows gracefully when I press quit hotkey. I like Unity behaviour: it displays list of windows denying logout (for example, editors with unsaved changes) and do not logout ...
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Windows logs off immediately after logging in
My university has an application that students must run it to do tests (midterm, final,...). It's really annoying to all students. It will close all files it can close on the computer (system files ...
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Disable logout after x minutes in OSX 10.6.8
Every time we change the setting on an iMac running 10.6.8 to not log out after X number of minutes the preference seems to reset to log out after 55 minutes. We don't want the computer to log out as ...
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OS X 10.6.x: How to use launchd to start a script at specific system events (startup, login, logout, shutdown)?
We've tried to create scripts that run at startup, login, logout and shutdown. We had them up and running with 10.4 but can't get it running with 10.6
What is the right way to use launchd/launchctl to ...
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How to automatically save virtualbox vm state before logout?
I'm using oneiric with unity. I want to find a solution to automatically save the state of my virtualbox virtual machine before I logout or shutdown because I always forget to do it manually. I know I ...
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Macintosh OS X Logout Script
I am working on a project where I need to implement a logout script on some Macintosh computers. I have read the following Create a logoff script/task for Mac OS X article and found that while it is ...
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OS X Lion: How to fully logout a user?
After a user logs out I can still see various processes running belonging to that user (e.g. distnoted, launchd). One of the resulting problems is that I can't edit such a user in the System ...
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Grant permission for specific other AD users to unlock/log out user from PC
What I'm looking to do is permission a Windows PC (ideally XP but if a later OS version is required so be it) so that a select group of users can unlock the machine, logging the current user out. This ...
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How to run a script at login/logout in OS X?
I'm toying around with building a custom render farm manager, and I want to automatically add OS X machines to the render farm when they are not in use.
Is there a way to trigger a script to run ...
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How to lock a RHEL 5.3 workstation
I get option to SUSPEND/HIBERNATE or reboot/shutdown. Isn't there something similar to locking as in windows.
I don't want to log out each time I want a break(think bathroom, drink).
I would expect ...
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xfce4-session-manager - does not turn off your computer
I use ArchLinux and Xfce 4.8
when in xfce4-session-manager I select Reboot or ShutDown
my computer just logout.
To turn it off i have to use e.g. 'halt' in terminal.
It began a few days ego.
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How can I automatically log out users from a Windows machine?
I would like to make sure that people are logged out once they're done working on a single, specific multi-user machine. Currently, the next user will just "switch user" and keep working, but having ...
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Why does OS X automatically logout my user?
I have a new MacBook Air set up with FileVault.
In the Security Preference pane I have "Require password 1 hour after sleep or screen saver begins" enabled, but the "Logout after 60 minutes of ...
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pidgin: how to make it log logins/logouts of an ICQ buddy if the conversation tab is still open
when pidgin was called gaim and you had opened a tab with am ICQ buddy, all his logins and logouts were logged during the time you had that tab open. It didnt' even matter if your buddy was online ...
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ubuntu 10.04 logs itself out overnight
Every night when I leave work, I lock the screen via ubuntu's "power" button in the top right hand panel.
When I come to work in the morning, I'm greeted with the log-in screen. This doesn't happen ...
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How can I set up a policy on Windows XP to logout all users at midnight?
Sometimes the kids are on the computer too late and rather than yelling at them I want the computer to help me out. I already have a separate user set up so they don't have admin access to the ...
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PuTTY/SSH: How to Prevent Auto-Logout?
My ISP's SSH server (Debian 2.0) logs me out after 35 minutes of inactivity, when connected with PuTTY (Windows XP). This is a big problem when I utilize the server for port-forwarding. The final ...
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If I log out of a linux ssh shell, is there any way to jump back into a process that was running? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Linux process to background - relogin - how to bring process back to foreground?
Okay, kind of a weird question but let's say I'm running a long-running batch script in ...
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Run Script on logout/ shutdown ubuntu
I want to run some commands every time a user of an ubuntu 9.10 machine logs out or shuts down. What is the best way to do this? Every user uses gnome if that helps.
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Sign out of Windows Live Messenger remotely
I just upgraded Windows Live Messenger at home. I'm logged into my machine at work so I have a Live session active there too. Now the fun part. This new version of messenger is signing me out after ...
