>> On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:28:02AM -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> > I have a crontab task to shutdown my system at a specific time each >> > evening. Shutdown notifications come to terminal windows that are open.
Before X Windows, you could have the task look at the modification time of /dev/tty or some such, since every keystroke updated mod time of the keyboard device. X Windows circumvents that, but there still are screen savers that turn on when the keyboard/mouse have been idle long enough. So that information is being kept track of somewhere. Perhaps you could configure X to use a "screen saver" whose actual effect is to update ~/.in-use with "idle" or "in use". Dale _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
