On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:36 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. If this is X specific, you might want to drop to the C level - write an app that uses a normal Xlib event loop, and catches all input events (keyboard and mouse events). After a given timeout with no input events, do your blanking / suspend
