Re: detect laptop open/close from within Python?

2018-04-26 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 26/04/18 17:37, Skip Montanaro 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!): > >

Re: detect laptop open/close from within Python?

2018-04-26 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Thanks, I do have that. Now to figure out when it changes state... > Unfortunately, the timestamp on the file seems to update continuously, > not just on state changes. Maybe /proc/acpi/wakeup will be of some > use. It appears that I can, at least some of the time. Might need to check it more

Re: detect laptop open/close from within Python?

2018-04-26 Thread Skip Montanaro
> 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. Thanks, I do have that. Now to figure out when it changes state... Unfortunately, the timestamp on the file seems to update

Re: detect laptop open/close from within Python?

2018-04-26 Thread Chris Angelico
On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 1:37 AM, Skip Montanaro 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!): > >