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Schmolch
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 Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 5:50 pm Post subject: Do something when beeing idle for n minutes? |
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Hi !
Is it possible to execute a command after a specific time of the computer beeing idle?
The background of my Question is a not working APM on my Laptop.
apm -s works fine, puts the laptop into suspend, but the BIOS's "put into suspend after n minutes" doesnt work, probably because of a not-meant-to-be-in-there CPU (on another board with default CPU it works).
Hmm... mabye it would be possible to abuse a screensaver-program for this?
Oh and btw.. what exactly does IDLE mean anyway?
Is it idle when there is absolutely 0.0_infinite number of 0s_0% of CPU-load?
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Zepp
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| Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 12:06 am Post subject: Re: Do something when beeing idle for n minutes? |
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| Schmolch wrote: | Hi !
Is it possible to execute a command after a specific time of the computer beeing idle?
The background of my Question is a not working APM on my Laptop.
apm -s works fine, puts the laptop into suspend, but the BIOS's "put into suspend after n minutes" doesnt work, probably because of a not-meant-to-be-in-there CPU (on another board with default CPU it works).
Hmm... mabye it would be possible to abuse a screensaver-program for this?
Oh and btw.. what exactly does IDLE mean anyway?
Is it idle when there is absolutely 0.0_infinite number of 0s_0% of CPU-load?
Regards,
Schmolch |
idle means when there as been no user input for x mins doesn't it? |
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