[Kde-kiosk] Idle Logout

[Dan Brough]

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 23:21, Peter wrote:
> 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 specif=
ied
>  > > 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 lock=
ed).
>  >
>  > "dcop kdesktop KDesktopIface logout"
>  >
>  > will logout the current user.
>
> this will first ask the user the question, will it not?
>


If you have the "confirm logout" session preference set, then, yes.
otherwise ,"dcop ksmserver ksmserver   logout 0 0 0"  will log the user o=
ut,
overriding the confirm dialog, also...
"dcop "ksmserver ksmserver logout 0 1 1"
will reboot the machine.

Does anyone know where these mysterious dcop options are documented?

>  > Now write a script that routinely checks to see if the screensaver i=
s up
>  > (and log them out when it is) and stick it in every users .kde/Autos=
tart
>  > 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
>

I found one,
Its the xscreensaver program from http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/,
(or the x11-misc/xscreensaver gentoo package).
I added the line=20
-=09=09=09=09dcop ksmserver ksmserver   logout 0 0 0     \n\

to my .xscreensaver file, which gives me a new xscreensaver "Dcop" that I=
 can=20
select in the xscreensaver preferences.

Me.
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