Re: problems creating a new user

2018-12-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2018-12-20 10:54 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/20/18 7:49 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 2018-12-20 10:22 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote: ctrl-alt-backspace needs to be enabled as well.  Gnome appears to have a setting to turn it on, but I've used the following snippet to enable it across desktop

Re: problems creating a new user

2018-12-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/20/18 7:49 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: On 2018-12-20 10:22 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote: ctrl-alt-backspace needs to be enabled as well.  Gnome appears to have a setting to turn it on, but I've used the following snippet to enable it across desktop environments: # cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/99-z

Re: problems creating a new user

2018-12-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2018-12-20 10:22 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/20/18 3:36 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: A related question: how do I set up Fedora to allow the alt-sysreq REISUB to kill the session? And I also thought alt-ctrl-backspace killed the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Sysrq That solved it fo

Re: problems creating a new user

2018-12-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/20/18 3:36 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: A related question: how do I set up Fedora to allow the alt-sysreq REISUB to kill the session? And I also thought alt-ctrl-backspace killed the https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Sysrq xserver. It > doesn't for me. ctrl-alt-backspace needs to be e

Re: problems creating a new user

2018-12-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2018-12-20 7:06 p.m., Tom Horsley wrote: Are you using the nvidia binary drivers? On my system at work attempting to exit X (which logging out apparently does) sometimes seems to crash my system (perhaps 10% of the time). I stick with nvidia though because the nouveau drivers crash in the mid

Re: problems creating a new user

2018-12-20 Thread Tom Horsley
Are you using the nvidia binary drivers? On my system at work attempting to exit X (which logging out apparently does) sometimes seems to crash my system (perhaps 10% of the time). I stick with nvidia though because the nouveau drivers crash in the middle of sessions, not waiting for me to log out

Re: problems creating a new user

2018-12-20 Thread Frank McCormick
On 2018-12-20 4:36 p.m., Samuel Sieb wrote: On 12/20/18 8:09 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Fedora 29 with the Mate desktop. This morning I tried creating a new user to check out a problem. After logging out and logging in again with the new users name and password, I was presented wi

Re: problems creating a new user

2018-12-20 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 12/20/18 8:09 AM, Frank McCormick wrote: I am running Fedora 29 with the Mate desktop. This morning I tried creating a new user to check out a problem. After logging out and logging in again with the new users name and password, I was presented with a blank screen with just the mouse cursor v

problems creating a new user

2018-12-20 Thread Frank McCormick
I am running Fedora 29 with the Mate desktop. This morning I tried creating a new user to check out a problem. After logging out and logging in again with the new users name and password, I was presented with a blank screen with just the mouse cursor visible. I deleted that user  then created