>> I see one problem with this method. The backlight intensity will only be
>> reduced when the screensaver will turn on and will be back to normal
>> when it is off. However these events can occur after many minutes of
>> inactivity. What I wish to do is to actually reduce the backlight to
>> idle mode (after 10 s for instance) independently of the screensaver
>> option, that is why I used polling in my code.
>
> set screensaver timeout to 10s. can be done. :) you will have to take over
> screensaver functionality instead of blanking or putting up screensaver
> window/anim/image, you dim. then add a timer to actually put up real
> screensaver image (lock and so on or blank) some time later. as such the timer
> is ok as it ticks off only once - when the timeout from the screensaver start
> is reached with NO user activity. any exit from screensaver mode would undim
> and cancel the timer.

Thanks. I thought it was not possible to do that actually, but you prove 
me wrong ;-). I will cook up a solution before the end of the we.

cheers

Mathieu


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