[3165] in Release_Engineering
NetProb ticket #1513, /usr/athena/bin/timeout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (pjb@MIT.EDU)
Fri Mar 11 10:30:00 1994
From: pjb@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 94 10:29:52 -0500
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>From: "James H. Haynes" <haynes@cats.ucsc.edu>
>Subject: /usr/athena/bin/timeout
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>This has come up at UCSC, asking if it's a problem at MIT and what you'd
>suggest doing about it.
>
>If you start up an application from the login window that doesn't use the
>keyboard, then timeout throws you off after the prescribed time even tho
>you are not idle. An example program we use here is xgopher, which is
>entirely mouse driven. I guess it turns off stdin, because I've tried
>banging keys from time to time in xgopher and I still get thrown off.
>
>So is there a way to make timeout sense use of the mouse too, or some
>other way to detect non-idleness?
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