I just stick with the default, which should be no
automatic lock.  If somehow your default has been changed,
here are some suggested ways of changing it back:

     1) In Gnome you can use Main Menu --> Preferences -->
Screensaver.  From there you can uncheck "Lock Screen After...".
     2) For just yourself if you have .xscreensaver in
your home directory (and you may not until you've done 
Main Menu --> ...) you can edit the file to have line
"lock: False" instead of "lock: True".
     3) For all accounts which don't override it with a
.xscreensaver file, you can as root replace "*lock:  True"
with "*lock   False" in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver
     4,...) For more ideas, "man xscreensaver".

Steven Yellin

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Colonna Francois wrote:

> Le vendredi 24 août 2007 à 13:11 -0400, Daniel Widyono a écrit :
>> Control Panel --> Appearance & Themes --> Screen Saver
>> Settings --> Start automatically: make sure this is not checked
>>
>> 	 OR
>>
>> Settings --> Require password to stop: make sure this is not checked
>>
>> Dan W.
>>
>>> I cannot remember how to disable the automatic lock of the current
>>> session when it is inactive for some time.
>>
>
>
> Sorry, I did not tell you that I was using Gnome not Kde.
> I would like to know how to disable this function by editing some config
> file, if possible.
>
> Thanks anyway.
> Francois Colonna
>
>