On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 10:49:07PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
I have a program that I want to run only while my PC is unattended. I
don't need the screen locked necessarily.
xlock does this for me:
xlock +nolock -startCmd startsetiathome -mode blank
but I have to run it manually. When
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Wed, Apr 07, 1999 at 10:49:07PM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
I have a program that I want to run only while my PC is unattended. I
don't need the screen locked necessarily.
How about the xautolock package?
Ah, that's what I was asking for!
I have a program that I want to run only while my PC is unattended. I
don't need the screen locked necessarily.
xlock does this for me:
xlock +nolock -startCmd startsetiathome -mode blank
but I have to run it manually. When I log back in, it does kill the
running command (startsetiathome) just
I have a program that I want to run only while my PC is unattended. I
don't need the screen locked necessarily.
xlock does this for me:
xlock +nolock -startCmd startsetiathome -mode blank
but I have to run it manually. When I log back in, it does kill the
running command
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
I'd like this exact behaviour but somehow I need xlock to always be
running, waiting to jump in after the idle period.
I thought about this problem before, and now realised you can check
keyboard and mouse activity looking at /proc/interrupts.
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 08:06:51AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
This is great! Thanks! I don't even need xlock now. I'll just start/stop
the SETI program directly.
Now, does anybody know if there is an equivalent to the /proc files on
other UNIXs, particularly Solaris, to detect mouse and
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Thu, Apr 08, 1999 at 08:06:51AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
This is great! Thanks! I don't even need xlock now. I'll just start/stop
the SETI program directly.
Now, does anybody know if there is an equivalent to the /proc files on
other
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote:
On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Shouldn't nicing it to the lowest level mean it only runs in idle time
anyway? Or does it display things when running?
I need to try various nice values and pay more attention, but I could
feel it's presence
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Michael Stenner wrote:
I need to try various nice values and pay more attention, but I could
feel it's presence when it's running at nice=1. It's all numerical
nice=19 is the LOWEST priority, nice=-20 is the HIGHEST. Negative
numbers are only available to root. So,
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