I'm not sure if there's an easy way to do this. You could write a little script that checks if the user has been idle for a certain amount of time, if so run your program. Then have cron run this program every minute or something?
I think "who -Hu" will list all logged in users and how long they've been idle for. I'm not sure if this is the right type of idle though, and as I have only the one user I can't test it because to run the command I'm never idle. Hope that helps a little, Joe Sent via BlackBerry® from Orange -----Original Message----- From: Bill Baker <[email protected]> Sender: [email protected] Date: Tue, 08 May 2012 21:14:33 To: UK Ubuntu Talk<[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected], UK Ubuntu Talk <[email protected]> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Cron task? I'm using Feh [a cli image viewer] trying to replicate the old "Pictures Folder" screen saver. By using "feh -rzZFYD7 /home/[me]/Pictures" I obtain 99% of the functionality [including directory recursion - but have to fire it manually. Is there anyway to set a cron job to start it automatically after x amount of time of idle kbd/mouse. All I want is to go get a cup of coffee and get back to find the machine displaying random samples of my photos.... why so hard :( -- Regards, Bill B. [SuperEngineer] ------------------------------ -Registered Linux User 523667- -Registered Ubuntu User 32366- -----Free as in Freedom------ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
