Log out after ... minutes of activity - user based or system wide?

In System Preferences -> Security and Privacy there is an option to log a user out after x minutes of activity. If that option is selected, does it control the process user by user or does it log all users out at the same time?  If it is system-wide, is there a way to control behavior such that individual users can be logged out but others are not?  Thanks in advance for any help and/or ideas.  - Steve.

I was afraid that would be the case. My motivation for asking the question was because I have two main accounts on my iMac - mine and my wife's.  When only my account is logged in, the system will sleep after the predetermined time I set within System Preferences -> Energy Saver.  However, when my wife logs into her account and launches Safari (that's almost all she does on the iMac), unless she either quits Safari or logs out manually, the iMac never sleeps.  I use Safari all the time and leave it running and do not experience the same behavior.
I'm wondering if there's some service running on her account that isn't on mine.  I'd originally discounted that but clearly there's something different about her account. Any ideas?  Thank you!

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