You can also disable DPMS and screen blanking by using xset: xset -dpms xset s off
-Bill > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:sunray-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of John Francis > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2010 10:18 PM > To: SunRay-Users mailing list > Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Log off instead of screen locking? > > Run a script in the background to poll if the screen saver is running > and kill the session if it is. You can look at the output of > "gnome-screensaver-command -q". > > e.g. > > #!/bin/bash > > while true; do > sleep 60s; > > # first make sure gnome-screensaver is running first > gnome-screensaver-command -q > /dev/null 2>&1 || continue > > # now check if the screensaver has been activated > if ! (gnome-screensaver-command -q | grep 'inactive' > /dev/null); > then > # kill the session > # how? maybe this: > kill 0 -1 > fi; > done > > Put that in a file and run it in the background of your startup script. > > On 26 May 2010 12:33, Michael Jinks <[email protected]> wrote: > > Our Sun Rays are walk-up public terminals. Our Windows desktop > servers > > are configured to log the user off after a certain number of inactive > > minutes, and they don't allow locking screen savers. So far I > haven't > > been able to find a way to make the GNOME screensaver behave the same > > way. > > > > Is there a setting (or an add-on app, maybe) which will do what we > want? > > > > Thanks, > > --Michael > > _______________________________________________ > > SunRay-Users mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users > > > > > > -- > Kind regards, > > John Francis > _______________________________________________ > SunRay-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
