On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:37 AM, Skip Montanaro <skip.montan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm going through a bout of RSI problems with my wrists, so klst night > I refreshed an old typing watcher program I wrote a couple decades ago > (there's a comment about Python 1.4 in the code!): > > https://github.com/smontanaro/python-bits/blob/master/watch.py > > It's far from perfect and I'm sure miles behind more modern stuff, but > it does the trick for me. > > I noticed a feww minutes ago that when I opened my laptop it > immediately locked the screen. It would be nice to get notified of > open/close events on the laptop. Any idea if there is a signal I can > catch (Ubuntu 17.10) or a Tk event I can respond to? >
No idea if it'll work on your system, but on my laptop, there's a pseudo-file /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state that has whether the lid is open or closed. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
