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From: tim@appenzell.cs.wisc.edu (Tim Theisen)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: user inactivity and screen blanking
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Date: 9 Apr 90 15:21:12 GMT
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In article <9004042252.AA11736@expire.lcs.mit.edu> rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) writes:
>There is no standard way to do this through an X server.  You could
>look at the input devices directly, as someone has suggested.  You
>could also look at the "xidle" extension that's in the R4 contrib
>software (it will probably take some work to integrate it into R4).

I have reworked the xidle extension for the R4 server.  It is available
via anoymous ftp from expo.lcs.mit.edu:contrib/xidle.shar.Z.  This 
extension returns the time since last input event from the X server.
It is currently in use on Vaxen, DecStations, Sun 3's, Sun 4's, and
IBM RT's.
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