Officeware like OpenOffice lets you autosave documents every n minutes. A valuable feature which some young folks I know ought to use more often.
Just walking away from a terminal after using it sounds good to me.
Another idea is to login and logout with voice commands. I don't know how this could be accomplished. But it would be a gift from heaven for the grandfather and many others. A text log of voice commands could be kept for debugging.
There must be a way. People can already send voice commands to their cell phones.
Bob
Simon Perreault wrote:
On December 27, 2003 10:59, Robert L Cochran wrote:
Is there a way for him to be automatically logged out after a certain period of inactivity, like 15 minutes? This way he can simply walk away from the machine and won't need to log out. I mean, why force someone to log out in the first place? There are situations when you don't want to bother with that stuff, and this seems like one of them.
Because logging out usually causes unsaved stuff to be lost? You can instead set up the screensaver to come up after 15 minutes and require a password.
-- Bob Cochran Greenbelt, Maryland, USA http://greenbeltcomputer.biz/
