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ukanth
ukanth

Reputation: 2978

Detect workstation/System Screen Lock using Python(ubuntu)

Is there anyway that we can detect when the system/screen gets locked and notify some event to trigger in Ubuntu ?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2195

Answers (1)

pajton
pajton

Reputation: 16246

There is a possibility to be notified when the screen becomes locked/unlocked with DBus, this is reference on GnomeScreensaver showing the basics of it.

I am not DBus expert, but there are bindings for python, so you can listen for DBus events in python. Combinig the two, you should be able to get what you want:-).

Here is a python-dbus programming tutorial on wikibooks.

Upvotes: 3

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