Re: idle timeout
On Sun, 18 Aug 2002, xterm wrote:
> I've been looking for some sort of utility (without success) that will
> look at keyboard/mouse activity in X and then run a couple of
> commands. I don't want to log the current use out (aka: idled
> daemon), or lock the screen with xscreensaver (already done).
I think you might find xautolock quite interesting: <description>
Xautolock monitors the user activity on an X Window display. If none is
detected within mins minutes, a program is started as specified by the
-locker option. Xautolock will typically be used to lock the screen
(hence its primary name) but it really doesn't care what program you make
it start. </description>
cu, danny.
> I'm actually looking to automatically unmount a couple of partitions
> when I'm away from the keyboard. Specificly, my zip drive which has
> an encrypted partition upon which my gnupg, ssh, etc keys are stored.
>
> I figure that even if someone snags the zip disk while I'm gone, since
> the disk's partition is encoded with AES128 bit encryption, they
> should be fairly safe and removing the disk or unmounting it will also
> make any email or documents I have saved immediately unaccessable.
>
> I figure it's better to be safe than sorry.
>
> Ideas on how I might implement this? I'm lost.
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