[11822] in Athena Bugs
/usr/athena/bin/timeout
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (James H. Haynes)
Wed Mar 9 16:45:49 1994
Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 13:45:27 -0800 (PST)
From: "James H. Haynes" <haynes@cats.ucsc.edu>
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
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?
