Re: Timeout for webkiosk

Matti Lattu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.handhelds.matchbox
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi

Some months ago I asked about timeout feature that could be used to 
detect keyboard and mouse inactivity in kiosk environment.

Matthew Allum wrote:

>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. 
>  
>
In case you're interested I wrote such a program and I is available at 
http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/atk/ltsp_kiosk/ (irqidle).

Thanks for the great idea!

r. Matti L

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Matti Lattu
ICT manager
Univ of Helsinki, Faculty of Behavioural Sciences
[email protected]
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