VERSION: 15.4
After having shut down the computer for 12 hours or 2 minutes and start up again, I am back to the status when I did the shutdown, this without having to enter a password. However, I get a greeting form openSUSE with the message “**Ahoy, this is openSUSE”; **removing the greeting brings me back to where I was when I did the shutdown. Any comments?
Jan Christian
Please Right-click to get the text (the editing of the post took place between shutdowns).
Bewildering posts. Specially #2 above I do not understand. Who should Richt-click where to get what?
And the first post is also very unclear.
To begin with, describe the status before you shut down. It is useless to say that you are back at the same situation when we do not know what that status was. So e.g. you were logged in in the console, or in the GUI, which GUI, etc.
Then I do not understand the “12 hours or 2 minutes”. Does this not happen when you shutdown for 3 mins? Or for 10 hours and 5 mins?
Bewildering posts. Specially #2 above I do not understand. Who should Richt-click where to get what?/CODE]
Agree! I was too quick in checking if I got it right (spelling included).
To begin with, describe the status before you shut down. It is useless to say that you are back at the same situation when we do not know what that status was. So e.g. you were logged in in the console, or in the GUI, which GUI, etc.
15.4: All updates as of today
openSUSE GUI
KDE applications running: System settings, Discover, Dolphin, Konsole
FireFox (Youtube, Google, ... )
Then I do not understand the “12 hours or 2 minutes”. Does this not happen when you shutdown for 3 mins? Or for 10 hours and 5 mins?
I should have written: Time-span between logout and login apparently does not matter. Sorry!OK, thus you are in a KDE session with several applications open.
Now you talk about “logout and login”. In post #1 you talk about shutdown (and implicit thus about boot).
What is it???
Again, starting point is the KDE session with several application windows. Then describe what you do and what are the results of every action as good as possible. We can not look over your shoulder, we depend on your description.
BTW, when after boot there is an automatic login for a specific user, I assume that you have configured it for that. But then I may assume that you know you did that, thus it should not be a surprise to you.
Also when you leave a KDE session and have it configured to restart to the situation at logout (which may be the default, I am nott sure, then of course the applications are started again on login. Again, why is this a surprise? Did that not happen earlier?
I’m sorry, but I’m not sure your post #4 clarifies the situation.
The “Ahoy…” greeting is issued by the package “opensuse-welcome”, there should be a checkbox to indicate you don’t want it shown at next login. I have seen reports of that “not working”. A better(?) option is to simply remove the package:
sudo zypper rm opensuse-welcome
Your comment “brings me back to where I was when I did the shutdown” may indicate that you have KDE set to restore the previous session. That can be changed from:
“(KDE) System Settings -> Startup and Shutdown -> Desktop Session -> On Login”
and select:
“Start with an empty session”
As to the no password needed, I’m unsure about that one.
I’m guessing that his system is configured for auto-login.
Now you talk about "logout and login". In post #1 you talk about shutdown (and implicit thus about boot).
What is it???
I should have used shutdown and boot consistently, I suppose.
However, the point is that no password is needed after boot and the no-name user is logged in as me (and may continues where I did the shutdown).
Best regards,
Jan Christian
Yes… Something that personally I’d never use, so I tend to forget it about it 
I assume you have automatic login configured. But what amazes me that that just happens now. As you did not say this is a fresh install, I assume that it did run without the auto-login before. Can’t you remember what you did in any configuration that made this happen?
In any case YaST > Security and Users > User and Group Management then select the user and click Edit. It should now show the user data, the last one is something like Switch of user logon. Uncheck that if it is checked. When it isn’t checked, we should look for another solution.
I have the following setting for Autostart:
Autostart > System Settings > Autostart > No user-specified autostart Items.
No settings there. Further: After having been logged out of the GUI window due to inactivity time limit, I have to log in again with password (that may be OK, but there could (should?) be an option ‘suppress further password logins for this session’ ).
In any case YaST > Security and Users > User and Group Management then select the user and click Edit. It should now show the user data, the last one is something like Switch of user logon. Uncheck that if it is checked. When it isn't checked, we should look for another solution.
Bravo! That uncheck was the simple solution that I did not find (most likely I blundered when installing 15.4)!
Thanks for super help!
Jan Christian
That is NOT what they advised. They advised System Settings → Startup and Shutdown → Desktop Session → On Login. And they did not talk about things in autostart. Those are programs you want to start after login. Those may be, and often are, different from what you left running when you log out. But that is NOT what you complained about.
You are NOT logged out after inactivity for some time. The screen is locked. And you must unlock the screen with your password. And then of course you will find your session as it was before the screen was locked (this is done so that when you walk away, no passers-by can hijack your session and again you can configure this, varying the inactivity timer, or switch it off).
Boot/shutdown is not login/logout is not screen lock/unlock.
Thanks for the clarification(s)! I will do my best to learn, but apparently I am a very slow learner: Sorry!.
Jan Christian