Re: Timeout for webkiosk

Hi;

on Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 01:11:55PM +0200, Matti Lattu wrote:
> 
> I've started to use Matchbox in an application that it probably was not 
> intented to be used. When trying to find a decent wm for my webkiosk 
> project (http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/atk/ltsp_kiosk/) Matchbox caught my 
> eye, since it is easy to customise. In this case, customisation means 
> that you can compile it in a very stripped form and thus making the box 
> a bit harder to hack. Also, the Matchbox binary is very compact and it 
> requires no run-time configuration.
> 

This is great :-) I have always hoped matchbox would be of use in
kiosk like platforms.

> However, there is one feature that I miss. My users are logging in with 
> their usernames and they are lazy to log out. Would it be hard to add a 
> timeout feature that runs a magic command when no user activity has been 
> observed for a while? Which parts of the code should I be looking?
> 

Hmm, I think it would probably be better to add this as a separate (simple)
application. It would check for periods of no user activity ( checking
keyboard and mouse in /proc/interupts ? ) and then simply kill the
matchbox process on a timeout. 

If you were to hack it into matchbox, Id add something to
wm_event_loop() in wm.c that tracks the lack of mouse / keyboard
events over a period of time.

Many thanks + good luck; 

  -- Matthew