https://github.com/purpleidea/evanescent

Evanescent machine idle detection and shutdown tool.
https://github.com/purpleidea/evanescent

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Evanescent machine idle detection and shutdown tool.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/purpleidea/evanescent
• Owner: purpleidea
• License: agpl-3.0
• Created: 2019-01-22T21:59:55.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-01-22T22:15:29.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-04T15:59:23.128Z (2 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 86.2 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README
  • License: COPYING
  • Authors: AUTHORS

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README

        
I should probably make a better README file.

See the COPYING file for the full license.

Please send all comments, patches, thanks & insults to [email protected]

* on tabs vs. spaces:

	I think that indenting with tabs is brilliant. Tabs are a clever

	character and replacing them with spaces is a big mistake. All of this

	code uses 8 space tabs where possible, and as such please send patches

	in this format.

* on max line length:

	I attempt to keep code to 79 or 80 characters long, however, I won't

	purposefully break a longer line if I think it makes the code less

	readable. Sometimes I edit in vim, but usually I use something like

	gedit. I think that enforcing a legacy terminal width in 2009 is a

	silly rule to obey.

* faq:

	1. Evanescent activates when I'm not idle! It's not noticing my mouse

	clicks or mouse wheel.

	A: see: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#mouse-idle

	Note that I haven't actually seen this as a problem, since usually you

	need to be completely idle for 1 hour+, however it is here as a good

	reference.

	2. I want the eva client to run and log out users, but I don't want the

	evanescent backend shutting down the machine.

	A: Add an exclusion for the `root' user. When exclusions are checked on

	the client side, they won't match, but when the evanescent daemon runs

	since it's running as user `root' you can now exclude by this rule.

	3. Can we add buttons to the pynotify dialogs?

	A: No, in an effort to support a wide range of notification daemons and

	strict usability requirements (ahem: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD)

	however, please send useful ideas/patches if you think otherwise.