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- From: andrewr@iagu.itd.adelaide.edu.au (Andrew Rutherford)
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- Subject: Re: XIDLE extention to X11 - using for autologout?
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- Date: 17 Aug 92 05:21:02 GMT
- References: <1992Aug11.140355.16540@uicc.com>
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- In article <1992Aug11.140355.16540@uicc.com>, putsch@uicc.com (Jeff Putsch) writes:
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- +We're running X11 on DECstations here (Ultrix 4.2) and I would like to
- +automagically log users out late at night PROVIDED there has been no
- +activity on their terminal for a sufficient period of time. Since
- +these workstations run X11 servers, it seems to me that the XIDLE
- +extention would provide me the information needed to detect a
- +logout-able user. My questions are:
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- Another way of doing it is to use xautolock with the locking
- command being one that kills off the session, with the time set to
- something huge like 10 hours or so, and have it running out of
- XStartup, not Xsession, so the users can't kill it off.
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