On Saturday 21 November 2009 03:44:29 pm Jim Sabatke wrote:
I installed SuSE 11.2 with KDE4 (stock version as found on the DVD).
From a turned off machine, the box sometimes goes directly into his user account and sometimes goes to the login screen where he needs to type in a password. This user needs a lot of hand-holding and gets confused if he needs to login.
Is there any way to avoid this seemingly random behavior?
Its not random. It just seems that way. I suspect it has more to do with how the machine gets turned off than any randomness. Also be aware that power saving can affect what happens if he walks away from the machine and leaves it to its own devices. You may want to look into Personal Settings (Configure Desktop) in the "start Menu" and look at Advanced Look at Power Management Check the General settings Then click Edit Profiles And for EACH Profile... Select the action that should happen for Idle for more than When lid is closed (if a laptop) When power button is pressed When Sleep button pressed. If this is a laptop, all four profiles need to be configured but it it is a desktop, you really only need to configure the profile that will be used when the machine is plugged in. Then, understand the differences between the choices, and if the user can't grasp these differences, set it up to ALWAYS do the same thing. For instance, when my laptop lid is closed on mains power, I suspend to ram. It boots much faster. But when lid is closed on battery power, I assume I am done with the machine for some period of time and I suspend to disk. I only rarely power off, so I don't have that choice selected as any of the profiles. -- If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org