In our division, Macs are PPC and Intel, running Tiger 10.4.7 - 10.4.8, with Office 2004 version 11.2.5 - 11.2.6, on G3, G4, and G5 towers, iMacs, Mac minis, and Powerbooks (no MacBook or MacBook Pro units yet).
To add to what Paul just said about the function "Fast user switching" for multiple users on a Mac: 1. Each user should have his/her own user profile and password; a password, rather than a blank for none, is highly recommended for privacy concerns and network security reasons. 2. The "automatic login" should be disabled; each user should log in on the computer. 3. It is not recommended to enable "Fast user switching" in certain work environments due to privacy concerns and security of sensitive information either on the computer or access to same via one of the users' profile access. 4. If you enable it, the "owner" (or the tech support with the "System Admin" permissions) of the computer can set the screensaver to come on and lock up the screen after 5, 10 or 15 minutes and will need a password to unlock it. When logging in with the screen locked, there is an option (lower left hand corner of the login box) to switch users. 5. When clicking the "Switch users" option, the screen shifts to the left (or right) and shows the login window. Log in and you have your desktop. 6. In addition, in System Preferences > Security you can click the option "Log out after ____ minutes of inactivity" if you want to make sure a user's account on the computer is logged out. 7. You can also setup for the computer to shut down each day at a specific time (System Preferences > Energy Saver. Click the "Schedule..." button at the bottom right-hand corner to set up this function. Steve ============================== Steve D. Culver Mac / Win Desktop & Network Support University Relations, UC Davis Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================== -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Berkowitz Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 9:11 AM To: Entourage Mac Talk Subject: Re: "quit script" On 10/2/06 8:21 AM, "Gene Wieber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would it be possible to create a script in Entourage that would quit > the app after a certain amount of time of inactivity? A user on my > computer never quits any applications when he's finished; rather than > seeing the Mac desktop when I'm about to begin work, I usually see > Entourage open to his last email--not serious but annoying. I know > nothing about scripting, therefore my query. Thanks, Gene No. There's no way gauging that "nothing has happened", or even "something generic has happened" by AppleScript, no way of monitoring events. (Actually, I suspect that his "Send & Receive All" schedule regularly checks for mail, so even if there were a way, which there isn't, you would never get to a point that "nothing has happened' since there would always be that schedule running.) Do you not know about "Fast User Switching" on the Mac? Each of you on the computer ought to have your own user "account". Then in System Preferences/Accounts. whoever is the admin user can "click lock to make changes", then click Login Options, and "Enable fast user switching". (You can either make sure that everyone needs to log in with a password, or not, as you prefer. You can have a password and he can omit one, for that matter, as you like.) Now when you get to the computer, you do not have to quit all his apps for him. All you have to do is go to the top right area of the menu bar, click on his name, select your own, and the screen "rotates" to your own nice clean desktop. When you finish, either just switch to Login Window or log out fully, whichever you prefer. Then he can (needs to) enter his password to get back to his own desktop, which he can keep as messy as he wishes, with Entourage and any other apps open, without bothering anyone. He can even set his own password to (blank) - i.e. no password, if he wishes. So can you. That makes switching to his (and/or your) user desktop faster, if there's no privacy concern. -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
