Interaction with Gnome desktop

[Kiril Stankov-2]

Hi all,

I am new to Gnome and I am looking for some way to interact with the desktop, more specifically to be able to lock / unlock it, start screensaver, shutdown, hibernate,log off.
Any ideas will be highly appreciated.

Thanks,

Kiril.

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[Wouter Bolsterlee-3]

2009-02-05 klockan 02:38 skrev Kiril:
> I am new to Gnome and I am looking for some way to interact with the
> desktop, more specifically to be able to lock / unlock it, start
> screensaver, shutdown, hibernate,log off.
> Any ideas will be highly appreciated.

Look at the gnome-screensaver-command application and the DBus API it
invokes, and at the gnome-sessession-save application.

    — Wouter


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[Kiril Stankov-2]

Thanks a lot!

Should I prefer DBus?
I started looking at Xlib.
Which one is better?

On 2/5/09, Wouter Bolsterlee <wbolster@...> wrote:

2009-02-05 klockan 02:38 skrev Kiril:

> I am new to Gnome and I am looking for some way to interact with the
> desktop, more specifically to be able to lock / unlock it, start
> screensaver, shutdown, hibernate,log off.
> Any ideas will be highly appreciated.


Look at the gnome-screensaver-command application and the DBus API it
invokes, and at the gnome-sessession-save application.


    — Wouter

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[Wouter Bolsterlee-3]

2009-02-05 klockan 17:21 skrev Kiril:
> Should I prefer DBus?
> I started looking at Xlib.
> Which one is better?

To interact with modern Gnome desktop components, you should definitely go
for the DBus APIs. I'm not sure what you want to do, but the programs I
mentioned in my previous mail already seem to do what you described.

    — Wouter


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