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In article <1992Sep13.033137.16339@rock.concert.net> ctwilson@rock.concert.net (Charles T Wilson -- Personal Account) writes:
}At the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, screen locking is
}not a problem because of watchdog, a program that logs out inactive
}accounts, locked screen or not.  During long file transfers you are 
}placed in an exception file that cannot be altered by hand....
}ie, if someone tries to put themselves in the file, they don't get
}the 'benefits'.  During my stay there this seemed like an effective
}compromise.  If you wanted a dawg program for yourself, a fairly
}simple way to implement it is to stat your tty for activity.  I haven't
}tried this on xterms, but it ought to work.

Works for xterms, but not for other applications (i.e., if I spend
the whole time in xfig or some such no tty is involved).  I understand
there is an X extention called XIDLE (or some such) which I presume
measures the time since that last X key or mouse event, but it is
not available on our Xservers currently.

John

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