On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 20:09 -0500, »Q« wrote:
> I'm using a laptop, and I'd like xscreensaver to just display a blank
> screen when running on battery power. The command
>
> $ xscreensaver-command --throttle
[snip]
> But when xscreensaver kicks in because of idle time, it's unthrottled
> no matter the power source, and I can't find a way to control that. If
> I could control this, I'd be happy. The stuff below about suspending is
> less important to me.
how about running a daemon to watch the output of
`xscreensaver-command -watch`
instead of using your script. That way, regardless of what kicks off
the screensaver (you or the timeout) you can then do some action to it.
> I use suspend2 to suspend to HDD, and I want to lock the screen
> when suspending. Using the LockXScreenSaver option in hibernate.conf
> locks all X displays, but even if xscreensaver is throttled before
> that, upon resume from suspend it's unthrottled. AFAICT, when
> resuming, suspend2 actually restarts xscreensaver, so its state was
> lost.
I think the above solution could work here too.
HTH,
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