I use gnome-session-quit to log out.
Is there a way I can change the amount of time before I am logged out?
It is currently set for 1 minute.
I can’t understand your point of vision.
You are on Ubuntu MATE community. MATE itself has great lockscreen.
Why do you use GNOME things in MATE?
Moreover MATE lock-screen allows to change the timeout you mentioned. From my answer of AskUbuntu:
Small remark.
It is great that Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS with MATE DE allows user to customize this timeout with values from 0 to 300, for example 20 seconds with
gsettings set org.mate.session logout-timeout 20(or from
dconf-editor).
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Just to make sure you understand what I seek, here is a screenshot.
I do not understand why you criticize how I log out. I did a search for a cli method to logout, and that was what I found.
If you know a better way, I am all ears.
set org.mate.session logout-timeout 20
did not change anything.
Start dconf
- click to open org/mate/desktop/session/logout-timeout
- set Use default value to OFF
- enter the desired value in seconds in the Custom value field
- click the so-called OK button in the botton-right corner of the window
Voila, done !
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It’s not letting me set a custom value ?
It says custom value True/False.
I got it figured out.
I’m sorry for line-breaking. I edited my post.
The correct command is
gsettings set org.mate.session logout-timeout 20Thanks Norbert. Nice to know 2 ways to accomplish task.
There are not really two different ways to change the time interval. If you set a custom value using dconf-editor it is executing the same command that you use in the terminal. So it is just a GUI instead of editing a configuration manually using the terminal.
Hope it is right 
Mickey 
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