On 09.11.06 21:50:51, Torsten Marek wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 -- You'll never see all the places, or read all the books, but fortunately, they're not all recommended. _______________________________________________ PyKDE mailing list [email protected] http://mats.imk.fraunhofer.de/mailman/listinfo/pykde
