Thanks to several responses, I got one way of taking care of my
problem. I originally posted to ask about ways to deal with an
autologout setup for CDE's built-in screenlocker.
Well, there were no suggestions on how to do this, but Richard Skelton
<rich@brake.demon.co.uk> did point me towards some CDE
reconfiguration. Screen locking is defined in the file
/usr/dt/appconfig/types/C/dt.dt
to use a built-in function, via the directive
ACTION LockDisplay
I added a new definition for this ACTION under
/etc/dt/appconfig/types/C
Now, with the definition
ACTION LockDisplay
{
LABEL LockDisplay
ARG_COUNT 0
TYPE COMMAND
WINDOW_TYPE NO_STDIO
EXEC_STRING /usr/bin/X11/xlock -remote
DESCRIPTION The LockDisplay action locks the workstation. \
You must know the user's or root password to \
unlock the workstation.
}
in a file under that directory, I can specify what the default locking
action is (and I have setup xlock---actually xlockmore---to support
autologout).
Thanks also to Marc A Maier <mmaier1@osf1.gmu.edu> who suggested some
script-based solutions for watching users' dtsession processes and
weeding based on that.
Sorry for the long turn around time on this summary, but this was the
first chance I got to try out Richard's selection.
CJW
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