Hi Ritz, thank you for the reply. I sorted this out yesterday afternoon and filed a documentation bug: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=758957
I am still trying to make sense of the dconf-editor, GSettings, gsettings differences in displayed values when a non-default value is set, but I at least have the dconf file working the way it should. Thanks again, - Kodiak On Thu, Dec 3, 2015 at 1:07 AM, Ritesh Khadgaray <khadga...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > On Tue, 2015-12-01 at 16:26 -0500, Kodiak Firesmith wrote: > > Hello Folks, > > Posting here because while there was a gconf mail list there is no > > dconf mail list - apologies if there is somewhere else I should be > > posting to instead. > > > > Onto the problem at hand - No matter what I set via gsettings or > > dconf policy files, my session idle timeout kicks in at exactly 300 > > seconds (RHEL default I gather) and locks the session. > > > > I am trying to determine the most correct way to set this > > programmatically (needs to be done via Puppet emplacement of files or > > 'Exec' commands) so that it can be pushed out to all our desktops and > > comply with STIGs. > > > > Here is what I have (30 seconds was just to test that the setting > > worked, which it never did. The real value would be 900): > > > > $dconf read /org/gnome/desktop/session/idle-delay > > uint32 30 > > > > > > $gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.session idle-delay > > uint32 30 > > > > $cat /etc/dconf/db/local.d/00-screensaver > > [org/gnome/desktop/session] > > # Set the lock time out to 900 seconds before the session is > > considered idle. > > idle-delay=900 > > [org/gnome/desktop/screensaver] > > # Set this to true to lock the screen when the screensaver activates > > lock-enabled=true > > # Set the lock timeout to 0 seconds after the screensaver has been > > activated > > lock-delay=0 > > > > Even with all of the above settings set, it locks at neither 30 > > seconds nor 900 seconds, but always at the RHEL default of 300 > > seconds. > > > > I've grepped all through /etc/dconf/db for '300' trying to find a > > leftover setting that is causing this to no avail. Does anyone have > > any ideas? > > > > Here are my dconf/RPM version btw: dconf-0.22.0-2.el7.x86_64 > > > > Thanks very much! > > > > - Kodiak Firesmith > > _______________________________________________ > > gnome-list mailing list > > gnome-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > > > Is this running as the given user, or are you trying to set this > globally ? > > You might want to check out - https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/dconf/Sys > temAdministrators . > > Cheers > -ritz
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