[wellylug] Soup Hub Timer

[John Billings]

Well the notification messages are nearly invisible w/ Gnome 3, but we
use Unity at the SoupHub maybe they are more noticeable there.  I wish I
knew how the initial "Temporary Guest Session" dialog works, would like
a similar box to that.  There is an option to delay that Dialog by
putting a variable in .profile, so maybe I can figure how to make
another one of those pop up after 30 ~ 45 minutes.

Cheers,
John

On 12/03/2015 05:18 PM, Brent Wood wrote:
> Hi John,
> 
> You already have a notification capability in your echo/at statement, &
> I figure you don't want to force some off in case no-one is waiting.
> 
> You could force a logoff instead of sending the message, but I figure a
> large notification might work?
> 
> Create an image with some friendly words asking the user to give another
> person a chance & use your "at" command to display this, so the user
> needs to kill the display window to keep going,  & anyone else about
> will see the message - hard to hide, needs a click to move on...
> 
> MIght be enough??
> 
> 
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> *From:* John Billings <jbillings at catalyst.net.nz>
> *To:* wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 3, 2015 4:58 PM
> *Subject:* [wellylug] Soup Hub Timer
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Ever since the Compassion Centre had some renovations done and we got
> some new computers, it's been quite busy at the Soup Hub.  We are
> looking for ways to do better crowd control, when people come in we say
> they can have 30 minutes on the computer and if someone else wants to
> get on after that you have to get off.  This is kind of annoying for
> hub supervisors now to tap people on the shoulder to tell them time is up.
> 
> So one idea we have is to try setting up a session timer.  We use the
> default Ubuntu guest session, which actually seems to create a new user
> in /tmp for each session.  There are some ways of customizing this user:
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CustomizeGuestSession
> 
> Now I've looked at:
> 
> http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man8/timeoutd.8.html
> 
> Which I'm not sure will work on not yet, and also tried just popping up
> and alert w/ something like:
> 
> echo 'notify-send "Time to logout"' | at now +30 minutes
> 
> But it's not very noticeable, need something that would grab the screen
> and you have to confirm before going on.  Would be nice if popped up a
> warning to say please save for your files, time to close your session
> etc...
> 
> Another idea is maybe use something like Workrave?
> 
> Anyone have ideas about how to do this?
> 
> I'm going over this Saturday to work on it let me know if anyone
> interested in helping out.
> 
> Cheers,
> John
> 
> 
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