import ctypes import ctypes.util from gi.repository import GdkX11 class XScreenSaverInfo(ctypes.Structure): _fields_ = [ ('window', ctypes.c_ulong), ('state', ctypes.c_int), ('kind', ctypes.c_int), ('til_or_since', ctypes.c_ulong), ('idle', ctypes.c_ulong), ('eventMask', ctypes.c_ulong) ] XScreenSaverInfo_p = ctypes.POINTER(XScreenSaverInfo) display_p = ctypes.c_void_p xid = ctypes.c_ulong c_int_p = ctypes.POINTER(ctypes.c_int) libXsspath = ctypes.util.find_library('Xss') if libXsspath == None: raise OSError('libXss could not be found.') libXss = ctypes.cdll.LoadLibrary(libXsspath) libXss.XScreenSaverQueryExtension.argtypes = display_p, c_int_p, c_int_p libXss.XScreenSaverAllocInfo.restype = XScreenSaverInfo_p libXss.XScreenSaverQueryInfo.argtypes = (display_p, xid, XScreenSaverInfo_p) dpy_p = hash(GdkX11.x11_get_default_xdisplay()) rootwindow = GdkX11.x11_get_default_root_xwindow() _event_basep = ctypes.c_int() _error_basep = ctypes.c_int() if libXss.XScreenSaverQueryExtension(ctypes.c_void_p(dpy_p), ctypes.byref(_event_basep), ctypes.byref(_error_basep)) == 0: raise OSError('XScreenSaver Extension not available on display.') xss_info_p = libXss.XScreenSaverAllocInfo() if xss_info_p == None: raise OSError('XScreenSaverAllocInfo: Out of Memory.') def getIdleSec(): if libXss.XScreenSaverQueryInfo(dpy_p, rootwindow, xss_info_p) == 0: return 0 else: return int(xss_info_p.contents.idle) / 1000