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On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 02:32:35AM +0800, Qiangning Hong wrote: |
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> I'd like to run a script after X is idle for some time (e.g. 5 |
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> minute), just like what gaim do (it set my status to "away" if I |
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> haven't touch anything for some time). How can I do? FYI, I have |
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> some Shell/C/Python programming skill. |
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I might be wrong, but I think Gaim uses the xscreensaver extension |
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from libXScrnSaver. There is a PyXSS module which can extract |
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information about Xscreensaver including idle time. |
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If the idle time that you have is the same as your xscreensaver |
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blanking time, then you can just use the 'xscreensaver-command -watch' |
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command (look at man xscreensaver-command for more info). I use it |
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with festival to have my computer greet me in the morning when I unlock |
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the screen. |
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Willie W. Wong wwong@××××××××××××××.edu |
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408 Fine Hall, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University, Princeton |
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