Autologout from KDE/GNOME
The shells have long had a feature to force a logout after a period of
idle time, but I am unaware of a feature either in GNOME or KDE to force
a logout at the desktop level.
The password solution of the screen saver is not appropriate for this
instance.
What I would like is a similar feature, but instead of simply locking
the screen, it would cause the user to be logged out of the KDE or GNOME
desktop.
I suppose that I could write a screen saver to kill the display manager
(eg. ctrl-alt-backspace). But, since this is not for me, I was wondering
if either a product or hidden feature is available.
The scenario as I understand it is that there is a shared PC in a common
area, and some of the users forget to logout after they are through
using the system. The password protected screen saver would cause more
problems by effectively locking out other users. In the past, I thought
that there were some products available for commercial Unix systems.
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Jerry Feldman
On Sun, 2004-05-16 at 08:25, Jerry Feldman wrote:
What I would like is a similar feature, but instead of simply locking the screen, it would cause the user to be logged out of the KDE or GNOME desktop.
I'm fairly certain there's no hidden feature for this - certainly there would be a narrow range of people that would want this sort of behaviour since it would likely cause more lost work than allow easier access. I'm unclear why a user, desiring access and finding someone who left their system logged in, couldn't just log out and then log in as themselves. But *anyways*...;) A quick google search turned up this evil page(note the distro): http://www.aplawrence.com/SCOFAQ/FAQ_scotec6idleout.html which contains numerous options already developed. Cheers, J.C.. -- John Coldrick www.axyzfx.com Axyz Animation Houdini/Renderman/Discreet 425 Adelaide St W 416-504-0425 Toronto, ON Canada jc@axyzfx.com M5V 1S4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Cats, no less liquid than their shadows, offer no angles to the wind.
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