Hi Paul, On 18 March 2013 21:22, Paul Stelzig <paul.stel...@reell.com> wrote: > Is there a way make the screen saver wake up without a key press or mouse > movement? My program is written in C with GTK+ 3.0 I'm running on Linux Mint > 13 with the mate desktop. The program is monitoring a inputs from a DIO > card, and in normal operation the user isn't going to be using the keyboard > or mouse.
I guess you mean stop the screensaver kicking in and hiding your window? Yes, you can send a dbus message to disable the gnome screensaver temporarily: https://live.gnome.org/GnomeScreensaver/FrequentlyAskedQuestions#I.27m_developing_an_application_that_has_a_fullscreen_mode.__Is_there_a_way_that_I_can_disable_the_screensaver.3F John _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
