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
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> 
> 
> --
> Kind regards,
> 
> John Francis
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