Hey SLUGgers. I would like to get my machine to make a certain file when
xscreensaver fires up, since I'm not paying attention (or not even there),
and whatever happens, I won't see it until I come back.
In the past, I had xautolock running all the time. It had a "hot" corner
(run xlock now), a "cold" corner (never run xlock), and the rest of the
screen used the default time of 10 minutes.
Now, I use xscreensaver. As it comes, it runs in the background, and after
a time activates. However, it doesn't support "hot" and "cold" corners, so
I went back to running xautolock.
xautolock doesn't fire off xscreensaver directly. It runs a script called
"sslockfile" ("ss"="screen saver"), which looks like this right now
(without the commsented-out stuff and the debugging statements):
#!/bin/bash
unalias -a
lockfile="$HOME/.locked"
xerrorfile=$HOME/.xsession-errors
touch "$lockfile"
/usr/bin/xscreensaver -no-splash &
/usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -activate > /dev/null 2>&1
/usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -watch "$@" 2>&1 \
| while read line ; do
case $line in
RUN*)
echo "Last xscreensaver mode: `echo "$line" | awk '{print $2}'`" ;;
UNBLANK*)
/usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -exit
rm "$lockfile"
fetchmail | grep -v 'No mail'
exit
esac | tail -1 >> "$xerrorfile"
done
The script never exits when I wake up xscreensaver. Here's the end of "set
-x"'s output:
+ case $line in
+ /usr/bin/xscreensaver-command -exit
+ rm /home/eben/.locked
+ fetchmail
+ grep -v 'No mail'
+ tail -1
+ exit
+ read line
Hmm? I though "exit" exited unconditionally.
What I really want is for xscreensaver-command to be killed whenever it
outputs a line beginning with "UNBLANK", and I'll move the stuff in that
part of the case outside the case. I tried using "grep -q", but couldn't
make it work.
Any clues?
--
-eben ebQenW1@EtaRmpTabYayU.rIr.OcoPm home.tampabay.rr.com/hactar
"God does not play dice" -- Einstein
"Not only does God play dice, he sometimes throws
them where they can't be seen." -- Stephen Hawking
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