Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Jan 19 2007 - 02:38:59 EST


On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 20:29 +0100, Alessandro Di Marco wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> this is a new 2.6.20 module implementing a user inactivity trigger. Basically
> it acts as an event sniffer, issuing an ACPI event when no user activity is
> detected for more than a certain amount of time. This event can be successively
> grabbed and managed by an user-level daemon such as acpid, blanking the screen,
> dimming the lcd-panel light à la mac, etc...


Hi,

why did you chose an ACPI event? I'd expect a uevent (which dbus
captures etc) to be a more logical choice..

Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven

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