[ohm] monitoring INPUT state

[Richard Hughes]

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:16 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:06 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 12:01 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> > > Really new X servers have an inactivity counter maintained in the
> > > server.
> > 
> > Okay, sounds like problem solved. Can I query X inactivity (do you know
> > the API name?) from a system daemon or does this have to go through the
> > session?
> 
> It would have be to be done at the session level, although OLPC only has
> a single session and a single user, so the system daemon could connect
> to the X server.
> 
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=xorg/xserver.git;a=commit;h=7e2c935920cafadbd87c351f1a3239932864fb90
> is the commit you'll want. It was only added to git 5 weeks ago so it
> you would want to check for its existance, and get it added to your X
> server.
> 
> The relevant API is X11/extensions/sync.h.  I believe you get the
> IDLETIME counter, and then set an alarm for it to go off after five
> minutes.  At least that's how I think it works. :)

Okay, brilliant, thanks. Ajax, is there anyway we can get this in the
OLPC build?

Thanks,

Richard.