detect the screensaver [SOLVED] sort of

[Antoine Martin]

Hi,

After much wasted time looking at "_SCREENSAVER_STATUS" and talks of
using dbus, gconf and what not, I found this snippet of python code
which calls XScreenSaverQueryInfo.
http://thpinfo.com/2007/09/x11-idle-time-and-focused-window-in.html
This gives me the idle time, but the state is *always* 3 (rather than
on/off/disabled)
Is there another extension which can be used to figure out if the screen
is locked?

Thanks
Antoine


Antoine Martin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> What is the official way of detecting when the screensaver is activated?
> 
> I thought it might be the "_SCREENSAVER_STATUS" property of the root
> window so I tried running:
> while true; do xprop -root _SCREENSAVER_STATUS; done
> And then starting the screensaver with gnome-screensaver-command -l
> 
> Nothing showed up. I must be missing something obvious.
> Is this documented anywhere?
> 
> Cheers
> Antoine
> 
> PS: apologies if this is not the correct list, I can't think of a better
> one.