| 1 | #! /usr/bin/env python |
| 2 | #inhibit then uninhibit gnome-screensaver. this is a kludge for |
| 3 | #SimulateUserActivity |
| 4 | #Copyright 2010 Daniel Watson |
| 5 | ''' |
| 6 | use a camera to prevent screensaver |
| 7 | Copyright (C) 2009 daniel watson, ozzloy@gmail.com |
| 8 | |
| 9 | This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
| 10 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
| 11 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
| 12 | (at your option) any later version. |
| 13 | |
| 14 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
| 15 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
| 16 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
| 17 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
| 18 | |
| 19 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
| 20 | along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
| 21 | ''' |
| 22 | ''' |
| 23 | This file is part of oble. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | oble is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
| 26 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
| 27 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
| 28 | (at your option) any later version. |
| 29 | |
| 30 | oble is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, |
| 31 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of |
| 32 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the |
| 33 | GNU General Public License for more details. |
| 34 | |
| 35 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License |
| 36 | along with oble. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |
| 37 | |
| 38 | ''' |
| 39 | |
| 40 | |
| 41 | |
| 42 | import dbus |
| 43 | import dbus.glib |
| 44 | import sys |
| 45 | import time |
| 46 | |
| 47 | def inhibit(): |
| 48 | try: |
| 49 | bus = dbus.Bus(dbus.Bus.TYPE_SESSION) |
| 50 | devobj = bus.get_object('org.gnome.ScreenSaver', '/org/gnome/ScreenSaver') |
| 51 | dev = dbus.Interface(devobj, "org.gnome.ScreenSaver") |
| 52 | cookie = dev.Inhibit('gss-poke', 'SimulateUserActivity kludge') |
| 53 | print "gnome screensaver inhibited." |
| 54 | return (dev, cookie) |
| 55 | except Exception, e: |
| 56 | print "could not send the dbus Inhibit signal: %s" % e |
| 57 | return (False, False) |
| 58 | |
| 59 | def uninhibit(dev, cookie): |
| 60 | try: |
| 61 | dev.UnInhibit(cookie) |
| 62 | print "gnome screensaver enabled." |
| 63 | return(True) |
| 64 | except Exception, e: |
| 65 | print "could not send the dbus UnInhibit signal: %s" % e |
| 66 | return (False) |
| 67 | |
| 68 | if __name__ == '__main__': |
| 69 | (dev, cookie) = inhibit() |
| 70 | time.sleep(0.1) |
| 71 | uninhibit(dev, cookie) |
| 72 | sys.exit(0) |