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[Feature Request] Check for screen lock #11

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bkbilly opened this issue May 3, 2022 · 2 comments
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[Feature Request] Check for screen lock #11

bkbilly opened this issue May 3, 2022 · 2 comments
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bkbilly commented May 3, 2022

Used for triggering lights when the PC locks/unlocks.
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bkbilly commented May 4, 2022

I can't seem to find a way to find if the screen is locked

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Dinth commented Oct 27, 2022 •
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I dont think that there is a simple & universal way to check that regardless of the desktop environment running on a computer, but it should be possible to check that for the main environments out there.
The simplest way of doing that would be to check if screensaver process is running (for example for KDE this will be kscreenlocker)
or you could use dbus:

$ qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.GetActive
$ qdbus org.kde.screensaver /ScreenSaver org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.GetActive
$ qdbus org.gnome.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver org.gnome.ScreenSaver.GetActive

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