[let's try this again, i hate my fat fingers]
dale> Write simple program (or script) that your screensaver can
dale> call to send SIGSTOP and SIGCONT to your long running process.
Jeffrey> That's a good idea. How does one get the screensaver to call a
Jeffrey> script? I'm running the default screensaver from Accelerated X.
if you run the xautolock package you could do something like the
following:
xautolock -time 1 -locker ~/bin/mylock
this would call ~/bin/mylock after 1 minute of inactivity. mylock could
look like:
#!/bin/sh
killall -STOP program
xlock
killall -CONT program
and that should do what you want...
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