Re: Programmatically showing the gnome panel logout dialog from external program

["Isak Savo" <isak savo gmail com>]

2006/5/16, Marek Habersack <grendel caudium net>:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 01:09:13AM +0100, Gustavo Carneiro scribbled:
> [snip]
> > >will do just that, but I  had another thought occur - I need to take
> > >care of the desktops users left logged in in GNOME. Is there any mechanism
> > >in GNOME to start a program after a certain period of idleness, or a
> > >programmatic hook/signal which I can intercept in order to implement auto
> > >logout for idle desktop sessions? I couldn't find anything of that kind in
> > >the docs,
> >
> >
> >  I know gajim has something to that effect, as most IM clients do.  It
> > seems to use a XScreenSaver extension...
> >
> > http://trac.gajim.org/browser/trunk/src/common/idle.c
> Thanks :) - I looked at similar code in GAIM, but was kinda expecting that
> GNOME would have some sort of standard code for the applications to take
> advantage of (such code would be quite useful, I think) - but doing it the
> way you pointed out is just as fine. Thanks again,

The new Gnome Screensaver provides a DBus API that you can listen to.
I'm not currently up-to-date with the functionality it provides, but
it sends out messages when the screensaver activates and IIRC, there's
also a method to get the idle time.

xchat-gnome has a plug-in that uses this (autoaway) and so does gaim I think.

Autoaway for xchat-gnome is here:
   http://svn.navi.cx/misc/trunk/xchat-gnome/plugins/autoaway/

Regards,
Isak