Re: Well, I've switched to KDE now
On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 8:23 PM, David L wrote:
> One thing
> I do is query the screensaver in a cron job to log
> my consulting hours. So I figured I'd attempt to use
> a portable way of doing that, so I tried:
>
> xdg-screensaver status
>
FWIW, this seems to work to query screensaver status in KDE:
qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver
org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.GetActive
That can be combined with this wmctrl command:
wmctrl -d | awk '($2=="*"){print}' |awk '{for
(x=10;x<=NF;x++){printf("%s ",$x)}}'
to get the name of the active desktop, which can be used
to log what you were doing at any given time. I find this
very useful for logging hours if I name my desktops by
the projects I'm working on.
David
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Re: Well, I've switched to KDE now
On 05/05/2011 04:23 AM, David L wrote: > Since gnome shell wasn't working well for me, I've > switched to KDE. I'm trying to get back some of > the functionality I was using in gnome2. One thing > I do is query the screensaver in a cron job to log > my consulting hours. So I figured I'd attempt to use > a portable way of doing that, so I tried: > > xdg-screensaver status > > which I thought was supposed to be a desktop > agnostic way of checking the screensaver. But > I got this error: > > Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name > org.gnome.ScreenSaver was not provided by any .service files disabled > > So how do I make that work and why am I still > getting gnome errors when I'm using KDE? It appears you may have found a bug in the xdg-screensaver shell script. You may like to report this in bugzilla.redhat.com. I'd never come across the command before (so thanks for the pointer!) but at a quick glance it appears that detectDE() may either be getting things wrong and thinking you are running gnome when you are not or else an unguarded call of dbus-send it spewing the above to the terminal when it shouldn't (I think that this output is coming from the screensaver_gnome_screensaver() function but I don't have a KDE install to try to reproduce with right now and I don't have the time at the moment to try to trace the script by hand). Running it with "sh -x $(which xdg-screensaver)" status should show you exactly where things are going south. Regards, Bryn. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
Re: Well, I've switched to KDE now
Check your Dbus Services, it isn't a Gnome error. 2011/5/5 David L : > Since gnome shell wasn't working well for me, I've > switched to KDE. I'm trying to get back some of > the functionality I was using in gnome2. One thing > I do is query the screensaver in a cron job to log > my consulting hours. So I figured I'd attempt to use > a portable way of doing that, so I tried: > > xdg-screensaver status > > which I thought was supposed to be a desktop > agnostic way of checking the screensaver. But > I got this error: > > Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name > org.gnome.ScreenSaver was not provided by any .service files disabled > > So how do I make that work and why am I still > getting gnome errors when I'm using KDE? > > Thanks, > > David > -- > test mailing list > test@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test > -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
