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That would only work if "Light Display Manager" was the only login
manager in existence, and everyone used it.

I need some way to distinguish between human interactive users that the
computer should not shut down on and automated sessions that the
computer can be shut down on.

The reality is though that I really should not have to do this at all.
Cron should be extended to handle the wake up timer, and handle the
decision on when to shut down the computer, when it should turn itself
on, and when it should remain on. It is an oddity that MythTV is allowed
to control such a global resource, and us users have to try and add
patches to extend its functionality.

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Title:
  who -q no longer counts gui users

Status in “mythtv” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  The "checklogin.sh" script on this page: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup uses "who -q" to determine if a user is logged in to prevent MythTV from shutting down the computer when a user is using the computer.
  On 11.04 this worked fine.
  On 11.10, my system shuts down 10 minutes after booting unless I open a terminal window.
  On opening a terminal window and running "who -q" I get:
  $ who -q
  dpeale
  # users=1
  I used to get "users=2". The gui user is not counted anymore.
  This is true of both Unity and Gnome GUIs

  The 'w' command also has the same bug (I've never been able to figure
  out what package that comes from). It also has another bug. If you use
  one of the ctl-alt-Fx screens, login, and then logout, it continues to
  count that screen as logged in.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: coreutils 8.5-1ubuntu6
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sun Oct 16 09:24:27 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: coreutils
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-15 (0 days ago)

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