On Sb, 03 oct 20, 10:45:13, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 03 October 2020 08:12:56 Dan Ritter wrote: > > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > The computer is controlling high powered machinery. Having the > > > screen locker kick in, disabling our access to the application until > > > we have wasted a minute typing on a poor keyboard trying to log back > > > in can be quite dangerous when the machine has a runaway. Anything > > > we do with xset is overridden before the 10 minute timeout is done. > > > > > > Some of us like xfce4, please advise how to permanently disable > > > lightdm and its light-locker. _Forever_. We do know how to turn off > > > the monitor at the end of the day. > > > > I would try > > > > apt remove lightdm light-locker > and task-xfce, the meta installer file was also selected > > and either installing xdm or just using startx to get X11 and > > XFCE up when you want it. > > Which is for me, 100% of the time, so xdm installed. > > > -dsr > > did that and installed xdm, reboot is next. But apt claimed there were > several hundred packages (353 count) that could be autoremoved. Is > that normal after an iso install and update to 10.6? It's to be expected when you remove a high level meta-package, like task-xfce you mentioned above. > I did the autoremove, linuxcnc still runs, so I think we are in > business. For the archives: 1. Inspect the list carefully, for any package you might need. 2. Use 'apt-mark manual <package>' for the package(s) you need. 3. Let 'apt autoremove' (with '--purge' if you prefer) take care of the rest. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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