Re: [K12OSN] AutoLogout Screen Saver

[Eric Harrison <eharrison mail mesd k12 or us>]

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Jay Kline wrote:

>Is there a screen saver or something that will automaticly log a user out if 
>left idle for too long?  This is for a lab environment, so after 5 min of 
>inactivity the screen saver should come up (password protected) and after 30 
>min the user should be logged out to free the terminal up.  
>
>Jay

Well, you could just set the screen saver to kick in after five minutes.

For "unlocking" a locked terminal, you can hit "Ctrl-Alt-Backspace". That's
the Ctrl-Alt-Del combo for X-Windows - it will kill the current session. Of
course you could just power off the terminal and turn it back on ;-)

I'm sure there are more "graceful" ways of doing this, but I've never used
them myself.  The MeterMaid app on the LTSP.org homepage might work.

-Eric