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 _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list