Idle Users

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
> 
> Simon--er, no...it was Bob Rasmussen--said:
> >
> > I can address the issue of preventing the problem from occurring. If you
> > run Anzio Lite or AnzioWin (our products) as your telnet client, you can
> > "disable quit" in Edit:Advanced options. This disables both the "X" box
> > and the File:Quiet menu item. The user would then quit by exiting from
> > their session at the Unix level.
> 
> Why not just handle the WM event gracefully?
[...]
> So if the facilities are there as they must be in C for pTk to accomodate
> this behaviour, why would anyone take half-measures?  Just politely close
> out the session in the ssh or telnet protocols before exiting.  Seems
> simple enough, and frankly seems like the correct way of doing it.

It's still dangerous, since you're not gracefully exiting the applications
that are running in that session, but rather hanging up on them.  (Yes,
filePro will attempt a graceful exit, but how "graceful" it can be depends
on where the user was at the time.)

I would at recommend at least an "are you sure" type confirmation.  (Like
you get if you attempt to close a DOS window that's not at the command
prompt.)

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