Greetings comrades, attached is a patched for slock to add a simple script for idle watching in your current X11 sessions. It is using xgetidle[0] for getting the X11 idle time.
Sincerely, Christoph Lohmann [0] http://git.suckless.org/xgetidle/
>From 319d24028a01fcf81e246ee44f2640938094a941 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Lohmann <2...@r-36.net> Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2012 20:20:01 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Adding an example script for automatic X11 idle watching. --- README | 8 ++++++++ xsidle | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 37 insertions(+) create mode 100755 xsidle diff --git a/README b/README index a81290d..e9c2607 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -22,3 +22,11 @@ Afterwards enter the following command to build and install slock Running slock ------------- Simply invoke the 'slock' command. To get out of it, enter your password. + +Automatic startup on idle +------------------------- +Slock includes a script 'xsidle', which will run a command after a certain +elapsed X11 idle time. It requires the xgetidle[0] application. + +[0] http://git.suckless.org/xgetidle/ + diff --git a/xsidle b/xsidle new file mode 100755 index 0000000..fb84343 --- /dev/null +++ b/xsidle @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +#!/bin/sh +# +# xsidle will wait for _time_ seconds of X11 idle time to elapse to run _cmd_ +# + +if [ $# -lt 1 ]; +then + printf "usage: %s cmd [time]\n" "$(basename $0)" 2>&1 + exit 1 +fi +cmd="$1" + +seconds=60 +if [ $# -gt 1 ]; +then + seconds=$2 +fi + +while true +do + tosleep=$(($seconds - $(xgetidle -s))) + if [ $tosleep -le 0 ]; + then + $cmd + else + sleep $tosleep + fi +done + -- 1.8.0.1.264.g226dcb5
