[PyKDE] idle time detection

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 09.11.06 21:50:51, Torsten Marek wrote:
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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.
> 
> 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.

Well, I can see a X11 interface module here on my Debian machine:
python-xlib, so I guess the same is true for kubuntu. Which means
Sebastian could rewrite this small class in plain Python.

Andreas

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