[pygtk] [Fwd: detect the screensaver] [SOLVED]

[Antoine Martin]

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Hi,

I eventually found this (using ctypes) which may help someone else:
http://thpinfo.com/2007/09/x11-idle-time-and-focused-window-in.html
This gives the idle time using XScreenSaverQueryInfo.
The state is always '3' which is a little odd.. so I still don't know if
the screen is locked or not, but at least I have something.

Cheers
Antoine

Antoine Martin wrote:
> Is there anything in pygtk that would allow me to detect when the
> screensaver is activated? (I have found a way for win32 using pywin32)
> 
> Since I got no reply from xorg, does anyone here have any ideas?
> Here is the original email I sent to xorg mailing list:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> What is the official way of detecting when the screensaver is activated?
> 
> I thought it might be the "_SCREENSAVER_STATUS" property of the root
> window so I tried running:
> while true; do xprop -root _SCREENSAVER_STATUS; done
> And then starting the screensaver with gnome-screensaver-command -l
> 
> Nothing showed up. I must be missing something obvious.
> Is this documented anywhere?
> 
> Cheers
> Antoine
> 
> PS: apologies if this is not the correct list, I can't think of a better
> one.
> 
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