On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 13:20:33, Thayer Williams <thayerw_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Neale Pickett <neale_AT_woozle.org> wrote:
> > Since the list is talking about slock, now might be an appropriate time
> > for me to mention again my xss project:
> >
> > http://woozle.org/~neale/src/xss/
> >
> > When I mailed the list about this in April someone responded with a neat
> > thing called "sinac", which is a little smaller than xss, but polls, and
> > only replaces one of the 6 programs in my package. Some folks may
> > prefer it, combined with slock or xlock:
> >
> > http://lists.suckless.org/dwm/0804/5534.html
>
> Thanks for the info! I have been using xautolock until now. I'll
> give xss a try soon.
>
> FWIW, I tried sinac before xautolock and I found that it consumed an
> unusual amount of CPU resources in the range of 30-50%. Perhaps there
> was an incompatibility with the latest Xorg server, I'm not sure. I
> didn't stay with it long enough to find out.
That's cause sinac.c as posted used usleep while working with seconds.
I fixed the usleep, switched to ulongs, and removed the argv code
because processing arguments is retarded.
Patrick
/*****************************************************************************
*
* xidletime
*
* derived from xautolock supplied by
* Authors: Michel Eyckmans (MCE) & Stefan De Troch (SDT)
*
* --------------------------------------------------------------------------
*
* Copyright 1990,1992-1999,2001-2002 by Stefan De Troch and Michel Eyckmans.
* Copyright 2005 by Stefan Siegl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Copyright 2007 by Christian Dietrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
*
* Versions 2.0 and above of xautolock are available under version 2 of the
* GNU GPL.
*
* xidletime.c -Wall -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11 -lXss -lXext -o xidletime
*
*****************************************************************************/
#include <X11/Xos.h>
#include <X11/Xlib.h>
#include <X11/Xutil.h>
#include <X11/Xatom.h>
#include <X11/Xresource.h>
#include <X11/extensions/scrnsaver.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#define VERSION "0.1.3"
static XScreenSaverInfo* xss_info = 0;
unsigned long
msecs_idle(Display *d)
{
if (! xss_info )
xss_info = XScreenSaverAllocInfo();
XScreenSaverQueryInfo(d, DefaultRootWindow(d), xss_info);
return xss_info->idle;
}
int
main (int argc, char* argv[])
{
Display* d;
unsigned long wait = 0, idle;
if (getenv("X_IDLE_SECONDS") != NULL)
wait = atol(getenv("X_IDLE_SECONDS")) * 1000;
if (!(d = XOpenDisplay (0))) {
fprintf (stderr, "Couldn't connect to %s\n", XDisplayName (0));
return 1;
}
(void) XSync (d, 0);
if (wait)
while ((idle = msecs_idle(d)) < wait)
usleep( (wait - idle) * 1000 );
else
fprintf(stdout, "%ld\n", msecs_idle(d));
return 0;
}
