gnome terminal timeout

[Scott J. Showalter]

I am running Ximian gnome 1.2 for hp-ux 11.0

The gnome-terminal seems to time-out on me after a preset time. Does anyone know where to change this value?

[Alex Glennie]

Not sure ran through man gnome-terminal and options within a gnome terminal no mention of timeouts .... don't think dtterm had any either.

What do you mean time-out . terminal session dies unexpectedly after x mins ? if yes what are you doing in the terminal session or what apps are you running in it or parallel with it.

generally places to check if there is a timeout setting will be $HOME/.gnome/session & session-options I didn't spot any .... does the problem occur within a dtterm ?

[Scott J. Showalter]

After x minutes of inactivity, the window just completely disappears. It doesn't happen with hpterms. I will have to check to see if it happens with dtterms.

I also checked in $HOME/.gnome/session and didn't see any reference.

Thanks for your quick response.

[Martin Johnson]

Did you check to see if it is unix that is doing the timeout? Do "echo $TMOUT". If you get a value, then it is unix. You will need to do an "unset TMOUT" or "set TMOUT=0" to disable it.


HTH
Marty

[Scott J. Showalter]

> echo $TMOUT
0

[Rick Beldin]

Check to see if it is generating a core in $HOME. If so a:

gdg /opt/gnome/bin/gnome-terminal core

and then at the (gdb) prompt, do bt . This will get a stack trace that can be reported back to Ximian.

[Charles Slivkoff]

Is your account using C-Shell (/usr/bin/csh) perhaps? If so, "echo $autologout". The default value is "60". You can add "set autologout=0" to ~/.cshrc to disable this feature.