Re: ubuntu automatic logoff

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:28:04 -0400 
Laura Conrad <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> 
> i kept notes after the last time i had to deal with dialup speeds on 
> my laptop at my mother's. 
> 
> one of the problems i hadn't solved was that the desktop in Cambridge 
> logs me off automatically after 5 minutes.  This means that if i log 
> on and check my email, and then want to websurf for a bit, I can't get 
> the email that's come while i was surfing without logging in again. 
> 
> Does anyone know how to turn this off? 
> 
> As i remember it, I pretended google was my friend last time, and it 
> did toell me something, but i didn't really test it, and it doesnt' 
> seem to have been true.