On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > I'd like this exact behaviour but somehow I need xlock to always be > > running, waiting to jump in after the idle period. > > I thought about this problem before, and now realised you can check > keyboard and mouse activity looking at /proc/interrupts. You could then > start a script like this in your .xsession file (adapt the variables at > the start to your needs):
This is great! Thanks! I don't even need xlock now. I'll just start/stop the SETI program directly. Now, does anybody know if there is an equivalent to the /proc files on other UNIXs, particularly Solaris, to detect mouse and keyboard activity? ...RickM...
