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From: meo@stiatl.UUCP (Miles O'Neal)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: user inactivity and screen blanking
Keywords: user activity screen blanking unix
Message-ID: <9665@stiatl.UUCP>
Date: 10 Apr 90 15:53:11 GMT
Organization: Sales Technologies Inc.  Atlanta, Ga.
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andrew@ambush.dk (Leif Andrew Rump) writes:
|Is it possible to detect (user) inactivity (no keyboard, mouse or
|other external events) on a unix workstation (more specific a Sun
|Sparc1)?

It's available in X now.

|We need to know if the user has left the terminal for security reasons.
|
|We also like to install a screen blanker so if the user leave the
|terminal for more than 10 minutes it replace the users "static" screen
|with a _moving_ pattern that prevent screen burning!

That's there now. Look at the man page for xset.

But it's not a security feature, per se. From a console running X,
you can invoke xlock. I would think that hacking either xset or the
server would allow one to run xlock as the screen saver, but haven't
looked at it. Nor have I heard of anything like that for an x terminal
(NCD, XDS, etc.)

-Miles O'Neal
meo@SalesTech.com
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