Re: Interaction with Gnome desktop

[Kiril <kirilstankov gmail com>]

Thanks a lot!

Should I prefer DBus?
I started looking at Xlib.
Which one is better?

On 2/5/09, Wouter Bolsterlee <wbolster gnome org> wrote:

2009-02-05 klockan 02:38 skrev Kiril:

> I am new to Gnome and I am looking for some way to interact with the
> desktop, more specifically to be able to lock / unlock it, start
> screensaver, shutdown, hibernate,log off.
> Any ideas will be highly appreciated.


Look at the gnome-screensaver-command application and the DBus API it
invokes, and at the gnome-sessession-save application.


    — Wouter

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