From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HvSRo-00001S-1L for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:23:16 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l556LtqV007282; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 06:21:55 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l556FMEu031771 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 06:15:22 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2449864E73 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 06:15:22 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.86 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.86 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.860] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 5EBQkH6AvhNT for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 06:15:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 492E364CFC for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2007 06:15:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HvSJq-0001Lz-9I for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:15:02 +0200 Received: from ip68-11-47-209.no.no.cox.net ([68.11.47.209]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:15:02 +0200 Received: from boxcars by ip68-11-47-209.no.no.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 05 Jun 2007 08:15:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: =?ISO-8859-1?B?u1Gr?= Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: controlling xscreensaver throttle Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 01:09:30 -0500 Organization: none Message-ID: References: <1180742744.15806.3.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-11-47-209.no.no.cox.net X-Newsreader: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Face: *#`F(_&o,GRH~~$V&ByU1LZAWc]JgxuT`Pv2y0`&JE`(=*PcC>#m2]xv]p,i|9mDJ+8dGMJl`V[!z]\N}qrLTHjU]Sew>rQBShT_8.(0Q(iH,Gu7k|y/)^!@oVydVrix*#|-|u2~zgA'U3nQ_fa#jXvcGL[9f:>8?U=hXYK3D~*}Gq$TjPe1WXEFLGTiB3ot!oMH"'(Jop0(\0C X-No-Archive: yes Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by robin.gentoo.org id l556Ltqo007282 X-Archives-Salt: cd84bdac-d4cf-487c-b34a-272ed147de20 X-Archives-Hash: 3245fe481732af82192544fb65a2ec78 In , Iain Buchanan wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 20:09 -0500, =BBQ=AB wrote: > > I'm using a laptop, and I'd like xscreensaver to just display a > > blank screen when running on battery power. The command > >=20 > > $ xscreensaver-command --throttle >=20 > [snip] >=20 > > But when xscreensaver kicks in because of idle time, it's > > unthrottled no matter the power source, and I can't find a way to > > control that. If I could control this, I'd be happy. The stuff > > below about suspending is less important to me. >=20 > how about running a daemon to watch the output of > `xscreensaver-command -watch` > instead of using your script. That way, regardless of what kicks off > the screensaver (you or the timeout) you can then do some action to > it. [snip my stuff about resuming from suspend2] =20 > I think the above solution could work here too. Yes, thanks. That looks like a good idea, and I'll try it when I get some time to tinker. --=20 =BBQ=AB --=20 gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list