Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:04:24 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0 |
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On Jan 19 2007 10:11, Pavel Machek wrote: > >> this is a new 2.6.20 module implementing a user inactivity trigger. Basically >> it acts as an event sniffer, issuing an ACPI event when no user activity is >> detected for more than a certain amount of time. This event can be successively >> grabbed and managed by an user-level daemon such as acpid, blanking the screen, >> dimming the lcd-panel light ? la mac, etc... > >While functionality is extremely interesting.... does it really have >to be in kernel?
I think so. While the X server grabs off any keyboard and mouse activity on its own, there is no such thing for the [read "all"] console[s]. Mouse movement (e.g. GPM) is actually implemented in the kernel, and screen blanking (the one controlled with "\e[9;x]") is too.
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