On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Markus <markus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > i would like to write a little script, that suspends my computer > if a few circumstances are met. > > One should be, that my screen should be blanked. I already did a google > search on this, but i only found howtos of getting it to work / disable it. > > It looks like xset q does not print the actual state. > Maybe there is a hook for screen blanking? > > I know this is not a arch specific question, but maybe someone can help me. > > Markus > I don't actually have a script for this, although I may end up writing one because I want similar functionality (just after xx minutes, suspend, not on screen blank). But, what you can do is install xscreensaver. xscreensaver-command -watch can be used to monitor the screen saver state (which may be just blank your desktop) and thus control the script. -- Alexander Lam
