<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> On 07.11.2011 03:34, Ben Bucksch wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4EB7439B.4010605@bucksch.org" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Context-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> Is there a module that can run a (configurable) shell command when <ul> <li> sound output is needed, i.e. an application plays a sound, and it's not muted </li> <li> no sound output is needed anymore, after a certain configurable timeout, e.g. no sound played in the last 120 minutes </li> </ul> ? Effectively, this would work exactly like a screen saver, just for sound, not for the screen/input. </blockquote> FYI: Ford_Perfect pointed me to <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/device-reservation.html">http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/device-reservation.html</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://git.0pointer.de/?p=reserve.git;a=blob_plain;f=reserve.txt">http://git.0pointer.de/?p=reserve.git;a=blob_plain;f=reserve.txt</a> (if anybody has better solutions, please let me know) </body> </html>