I have a program that I want to run only while my PC is unattended. I don't need the screen locked necessarily.
xlock does this for me: xlock +nolock -startCmd startsetiathome -mode blank but I have to run it manually. When I log back in, it does kill the running command (startsetiathome) just like I want. I'd like this exact behaviour but somehow I need xlock to always be running, waiting to jump in after the idle period. Any ideas? Do any of the screen savers in gnome/enlightenment/etc have such features? If anyone is interested, the program that I'm running is the SETI at Home client. SETI is "The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence". Linux platforms currently dominate the user community, but the Mac and Windows clients aren't released yet. Check it out: http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Here's a screenshot of a little GUI monitor that I wrote for it: http://www.cuug.ab.ca/~macdonal/tkseti.gif ...RickM...
