Hi -devel, the program timeoutd was originally written when using X was not a matter of course:
timeoutd loggs user out when they reached timeout-restrictions like max. login-time, max. idle-time, etc. Some users asked for X-Support. Well, X works well with "No login allowed at all" and "Login restricted to max. X minutes", but it does not work with "Logout, when user U was idle Yminutes. Support for X and "idle-logout" is not included within timeoutd. My question is: Is there any way to querry how long a X-user is idle? If not, do you think it's okay to write something like "IDLE-Logout does not work with X" into Readme.Debian and into the config-file(,manpage, ...)? I found no way to check if a user is idle without using extra libraries, and if I use extra libaries, new depencies are needed wich users don't need if they have no X on their box. (these extra-depencies may depend on X, so they need X, etc...) thank you, Dennis