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Old 02-23-2007, 11:48 AM   #1
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Automatic System Shutdown (On Idle)

After about 4 hours of inactivity from input, I'd like my laptop to automatically shut itself down. Is this possible in Linux?
 
Old 02-25-2007, 04:40 PM   #2
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good battery power, wow, 4 hours... is that a real question?
 
Old 03-04-2007, 03:28 AM   #3
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Ever heard of AC power?
 
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Adding a note to an old thread in case this is of use to anybody else:

This post at crunchbang http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=26447 details a bash script to determine the time in seconds since the last mouse or keyboard action in the system. It doesn't depend on any X session or user being logged in since it's just looking at hardware interrupts. You could modify the script to do a shutdown rather than a suspend.

So for keyword searches: bash script for user idle / inactive time to suspend or lock
 
  


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