ITunes Visualizer trumps Auto-Logout why?

My company has finally instituted a few security measures, and one is the auto-log out after 15 minutes (or at least a screen freeze). Now I set my computer to auto-logout, after I left work yesterday I left my iTunes playing and the visualizer on, assuming that the computer would completely log-out within 15 minutes, quiting iTunes and silencing my machine. Instead I found my boss pounding away at my keyboard trying to figure out how to silence my computer (he's an OS 9 person who only recently migrated so...he's still on the uptake on all the OS X stuff). Is there anyway to have my computer logout while the visualizer is on? Or do I just have to log out on my own?

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Last edited by drtebi (2015-01-10 23:48:18)

Trilby wrote:
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- A window with a selection-list pops up where I can choose "hires" or "lowres"
- When I choose either of these, the script rewrites the file ~/.RESOLUTION accordingly
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- Restarting Enlightenment now will have ~/.bash_profile and ~/.xinitrc use the value that's set in ~/.RESOLUTION to start Enlightenment with the corresponding xorg.conf or xorg.conf-2k file
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A manual logout does that once back at the console (tty1). But I can not seem to trigger that logout from the script.
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I know it may sound a bit overkill... but it would really be nice to get this working.
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