Re: GtkICQ suggestion

[Daniel Burrows <Daniel_Burrows brown edu>]

On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 04:36:54PM -0500, Daniel Burrows was heard to say:
>   It would be nice if GtkICQ could automatically set the user's away state when
> the screensaver is activated.  I recently implemented this in a friend's
> AIM client pretty simply; I created a callback routine which ran a selected
> program periodically (eg, every 10 seconds) and used the return value to check
> whether a screen saver was running.  For xscreensaver, the program needed
> (although it could be tweaked to deal better with the case where xscreensaver
> isn't running) was:
> -----------
> #!/bin/sh
> xscreensaver-command -time | grep non-blank > /dev/null 2>& 1
> -----------
>   I found a function in autoaway.c that seems to do something similar, but it's
> based on checking how long the display has been idle, if I understand it
> correctly.  I have a very crude patch attached to this message which makes it
> execute the file /usr/local/bin/test-xscreensaver instead and go idle or return based on the reesult of that call.  There are a bunch of problems with it but
> hopefully it at least demonstrates what I was thinking of.
>   Maybe letting the user choose which method to use would work?
> 

  Oops.  I didn't attach the patch to the message.

-- 
  Daniel Burrows

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Index: autoaway.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/gtkicq/src/autoaway.c,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -r1.2 autoaway.c
--- autoaway.c	1998/12/21 22:18:49	1.2
+++ autoaway.c	1999/01/27 21:51:18
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 #include "gtkicq.h"
 #include "gtkfunc.h"
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
 
-#ifdef USE_XSCREENSAVER
+#ifndef USE_XSCREENSAVER
 #include <X11/Xlib.h>
 #include <X11/Xutil.h>
 #include <X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h>
@@ -34,6 +36,42 @@
 		icq_change_status( data->sok, STATUS_NA, data );
 	else if( time_idle > 60000 * AUTO_AWAY )
 		icq_change_status( data->sok, STATUS_AWAY, data );
+}
+
+#else
+
+char *script_name="/usr/local/bin/test-xscreensaver";
+
+void auto_away( struct sokandlb *data)
+
+{
+	int pid;
+	int result;
+	switch(pid=fork())
+	{
+		case -1: /* Ouch! error.. */
+                        perror("gtkicq: cannot fork() for idle poll");
+                        break;
+                case 0:
+                        execl(script_name,script_name,NULL);
+                        perror("gtkicq: cannot execl() idle poll");
+                        break;
+                default:
+                        waitpid(pid,&result,0);
+                        if( WIFEXITED(result))
+                        {
+                                if(WEXITSTATUS(result))
+				{
+					printf("auto_away(): going away\n");
+                                        icq_change_status(data->sok,STATUS_AWAY,data);
+				}
+                                else
+				{
+					printf("auto_away(): coming back\n");
+                                        icq_change_status(data->sok,STATUS_ONLINE,data);
+				}
+                        }
+        }
 }
 
 #endif

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