[PyKDE] idle time detection

[Torsten Marek]

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Matt Newell schrieb:
> On Thursday 09 November 2006 11:48, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>> On 09.11.06 19:51:11, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
>>> Can anyone think of some clean way for a PyKDE application to detect idle
>>> time?
>>>
>>> For the Kubuntu powermanager applet, we're currently missing that
>>> feature. The usecase would be kicking in a suspend / hibernate / dimming
>>> display after N seconds of no mouse or keyboard activity.
>> You have to hook into X11 then, I think.
> 
> You need to use the XScreenSaver extension.  Attached is a c++ class used by 
> older psi that i use in one of my projects.  I'm not sure but you can 
> probably achieve the same thing with pure python.

Hi,

just a heads up,  you might want to look at ctypes if you do stuff like that, no
need to write a C extension yourself. Remember, ctypes is stdlib in 2.5.

best,

Torsten

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