Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

[Alessandro Di Marco <dmr@gmx.it>]

"Scott Preece" <sepreece@gmail.com> writes:

   On 1/25/07, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> wrote:
   > Imagine one computer serving two users. Two monitors, two keyboards ...
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   Good point! Of late I've been working on single-user systems, so it
   was not at the front of my brain, despite years of building and using
   multi-user systems.

   It's a point that multi-user systems have struggled with forever (when
   somebody inserts a CR in the drive mounted in the system box, which user do
   you pop up a media player for?).

sed s/user X's screensaver/suspend to disk/g <<EOF

   I tend to think it's not a kernel-vs-user-space issue, though. To
   solve it you need, somewhere, a notion of a "user session" and you
   need some way to separate system-level issues (like low-battery) from
   user-level issues (like activiating user X's screensaver).

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Are you sure?

best,

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