Re: How to identify the idle state of the GTK+ application?

[Matt Hull <mhull1 uic edu>]

that like what gaim does ?

matt

On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Martyn Russell wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 17:46 +0600, sadhees kumar wrote:
> > Friends,
> >
> >        In my GTK application, If  no action(event) is taken place in
> > the screen, I need to turn OFF the backlight of an TFT monitor. If any
> > key pressed, or mouse movement occured, I need to turn ON the
> > backlight.
> >
> > I have the API for toggling the backlight. My problem is , how to
> > identify the idle state of the screen?
>
> Gossip needs to know how long the user has been idle (with no mouse
> movement or key presses) for setting users to an away state, this might
> be useful:
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gossip/src/gossip-idle.c?rev=1.8&view=markup
>
> --
> Regards,
> Martyn
>
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