Re: Programmatically showing the gnome panel logout dialog from external program

[Bruce-Robert Pocock <BRPocock Sidereal Net>]

On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 20:21 +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> I need to take
> care of the desktops users left logged in in GNOME. Is there any mechanism
> in GNOME to start a program after a certain period of idleness, or a
> programmatic hook/signal which I can intercept in order to implement auto
> logout for idle desktop sessions? 

I don't know the details, but I think you can eavesdrop on the dbus for
a signal to that effect. You might check the dbus and/or
gnome-screensaver docs.