[Kde-kiosk] Idle Logout

[Dan Brough]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 18:53, Ian White wrote:
> Has anybody found a way of forcing a user to logout after a specified
> amount of idle time? Everybody using these terminals will have to log i=
n
> for usage tracking, etc. so I don't want people using somebody elses
> abandoned login.
>

Heres my naff way of doing it...

running,

"dcop kdesktop KScreensaverIface isBlanked"

tells you whether the screensaver is on (or the screen has been locked).

"dcop kdesktop KDesktopIface logout"=20

will logout the current user.

Now write a script that routinely checks to see if the screensaver is up=20
(and log them out when it is) and stick it in every users .kde/Autostart=20
folder to startup when the user logs on.

Me.

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