[Kde-kiosk] Idle Logout

[Peter]

Hello,

Dan Brough writes:
 > 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 in
 > > 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" 
 > 
 > will logout the current user.

this will first ask the user the question, will it not?

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

Isn't there a screensaver that allows a randomly chosen program or
script to execute?  you could then call 
`dcop ksmserver ksmserver logout 0 1 1'
instead of a screensaver

just my 2Cent

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