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- From: rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
- Subject: Re: Idle nodes? (was Re: automatic screen turn-off)
- Message-ID: <5aeed25b.1bc5b@pisa.citi.umich.edu>
- Sender: news@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Usenet Owner)
- Reply-To: Jim.Rees@umich.edu
- Organization: University of Michigan IFS Project
- References: <1992Sep1.214827.22827@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 18:54:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep1.214827.22827@ucc.su.OZ.AU>, szabo_p@maths.su.oz.au (Paul Szabo) writes:
-
- > Is there a way to find out how long an Apollo node (i.e. the interactive
- > user logged on the display) has been idle? It might be sufficient to find
- > out whether the screen has been blanked out or not (with due regard to the
- > setting of scrto). Does anyone know the trick?
-
- Seems to me that Nat Mishkin once hacked an inactivity timer into Aegis,
- back around sr5 when he was still at Yale, but it never made its way into
- the release.
-