Idle time tracking in KRunner

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Friday 08 August 2008 12:56:33 Ryan P. Bitanga wrote:
> Would anyone object if I enabled idle time tracking in KRunner even if
> the screensaver is not enabled in System Settings? We currently only
> track idle time if screen savers are enabled but idle time has uses
> for power management and possibly other things.
>
> I decided to do something I thought wasn't related to plasma or
> KRunner, by writing a power manager a few weeks ago, only to find all
> paths lead back to KRunner. So here I am again. :)  I think the gnome
> screen saver still tracks idle time even if its disabled since
> gnome-power-manager svn trunk relies solely on it for idle time
> decisions. If we don't _always_ track idle time, power managers need
> to read XScreenSaverInfo.idle themselves. I also noticed KRunner seems
> to lag behind XScreenSaverInfo a few seconds but that shouldn't be an
> issue since ideally screensavers should be triggered by minutes of
> inactivity.
>
> I'm also thinking about rewriting the whole xautolock thing. Any
> suggestions?

Wasn't a feature added to Xorg some time ago that basically works like a 
signal/slot connection, i.e. you tell X to notify you after n seconds of 
idletime, and just install a handler to do whatever you like?
-- 
sebas

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