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Joel Auterson
Joel Auterson

Reputation: 728

Gnome-Screensaver with Python?

I've created a little screensaver-type program with Python, and I'd like to get it working properly under gnome-screensaver. The documentation is all written for C, and there don't appear to be libraries for Python. Is there any way to get this working?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 609

Answers (1)

Epcylon
Epcylon

Reputation: 4727

gnome-screensaver doesn't integrate with the screensavers any more than with a small config file that sets the name, some other properties, and a command to execute to start the screensaver. This is documented in the gnome-screensaver FAQ.

The program that gets started needs to get the Window ID from the environment (XSCREENSAVER_WINDOW), and start displaying on that window. This is the tricky part, as it's not always obvious how to do that. Most toolkits should have methods to get a handle on an already existing window by giving the ID, so search your GUI-toolkit documentation for something like that.

Upvotes: 2

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