<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi Kristien</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Cheers for the info!</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Haven't gotten it go on Leopard yet
but I will tinker along these lines. </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Would be nice to find the trigger from
energy saver however.</font>
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Kai<br>
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Music Technology Technical Support<br>
Queensland Conservatorium of Music<br>
Griffith University<br>
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<br><tt><font size=2>Dear Kai...<br>
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We used to do something similar in Physics, but instead we would <br>
trigger the screensaver when the login window was idle--it was eye <br>
candy for passers-by during idle lab times.<br>
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I started writing the screensaver script myself, but then I got lazy <br>
and searched the Web. I found one approach that worked spiffily with <br>
our 10.3 systems. The script is driven by cron (or by launchd, I <br>
suppose, if we were running it on Leopard machines). Here's the site, <br>
which appears extant:<br>
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http://homepage.mac.com/gregneagle/iblog/C1833135211/E1305475742/<br>
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I suppose you might merely want to issue '/sbin/halt' in place of the <br>
screensaver in the script from the above site. I've only ever invoked <br>
ScreenSaverEngine.app using this method, and I've only ever used it on
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G3 iMacs and on eMacs running Panther.<br>
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Kristien<br>
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School of Physics<br>
UNSW SYDNEY NSW 2052<br>
Australia<br>
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On 28/05/2008, at 1:34 PM, Kai Mohrholz wrote:<br>
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> Hi All<br>
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> Just wondering if anyone would know how to go about triggering a <br>
> script to shut down a computer if it's sitting idle on the login <br>
> window?<br>
> Obviously energy saver triggers the display to turn off after x mins
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> so really I just want to extend that timing to the shutdown command
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> but only while on login window and not while a user is logged in.<br>
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> Anyone doing anything like this or got suggestions?<br>
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> Regards,<br>
> Kai<br>
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> Kai Mohrholz<br>
> Music Technology Technical Support<br>
> Queensland Conservatorium of Music<br>
> Griffith University<br>
> 16 Russell Street, South Bank, QLD 4101.<br>
> P.O. Box 3428<br>
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> Phone: (07) 3735 6278<br>
> Fax: (07) 3735 6282<br>
> Email: k.mohrholz@griffith.edu.au<br>
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