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From: jim@tiamat.fsc.com ( IT Manager)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: How to stop windows from timing out
Message-ID: <807@tiamat.fsc.com>
Date: 9 Mar 91 16:38:35 GMT
References: <17127@lanl.gov>
Organization: Ahlstrom Filtration - Chattanooga,TN
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In article <17127@lanl.gov>, bxb@lanl.gov (Barry J. Berenberg) writes:
> HP-UX 7.03, X11R4 on a 9000/300...
> 
> My windows have this annoying habit of killing themselves
> if they are inactive for some length of time (something
> like 30 mins, but I'm not sure).

If these are "hpterm" windows with "ksh" running in them you probably have
an environment variable TMOUT set to some non-zero value.

If "echo $TMOUT" produces something other than 0 (or an error message), then
the ksh will exit after $TMOUT seconds without activity (activity == input,
I think).

I seem to recall that the default *profile files under HPUX set this value
to something non-zero.

We've been using TMOUT as an idle-out feature, but it is a pain under X, so
I find myself doing "TMOUT=0" as the first thing in each window.

Is there a nifty way for a ksh to figure out that it is running in a window?
(Assuming you ran something like "hpterm -ls".  The shell started by
doing "hpterm -e rlogin remotehost" probably has no chance of figuring out
it's in a window.)
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