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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: screensaver activation notification
From:       Andriy Rysin <arysin () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-11-20 17:29:30
Message-ID: AANLkTi=Qe9P6QuyEk-v=e5Xzaf3B2AcZTCJONpU2AVHz () mail ! gmail ! com
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2010/11/20 Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi@kde.org>

> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:28:25AM -0500, Andriy Rysin wrote:
> > Could anybody point me to an (easy) way to listen to screensaver/lock
> dialog
> > activation so I can provide separate layout for it?
> >
> you could have trivially found that by browsing
> org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver in qdbusviewer and/or some googling.
>
thanks, I was googling for some x11 or kde api, I guess I'll take a look at
dbus

but it seems rather weird to me that you want to watch the locker from
> the outside given that it actively embeds a layout switcher element.
>
layout widget is quite passive element: it mostly just listens to xkb layou=
t
changes and displays the active layout, plus allows to switch it by pressin=
g
button, more than that it does not know where it's embedded in =97 it's the
kded keyboard daemon which listens to window changes and switches active
layout based on that.

> Also along the way, seems that keyboard layout widget that is shown in
> lock
> > dialog does not show a tooltip on the button even though I set it. I am
> curious
> > if this is some limitation of the lock dialog or I am doing something
> wrong.
> >
> probably something to do with the mouse grab
>

Thanks
Andriy

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<div class="gmail_quote">2010/11/20 Oswald Buddenhagen <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a \
href="mailto:ossi@kde.org">ossi@kde.org</a>&gt;</span><br><blockquote \
class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, \
204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 11:28:25AM \
-0500, Andriy Rysin wrote:<br> &gt; Could anybody point me to an (easy) way to listen \
to screensaver/lock dialog<br> &gt; activation so I can provide separate layout for \
it?<br> &gt;<br>
</div>you could have trivially found that by browsing<br>
org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver in qdbusviewer and/or some \
googling.<br></blockquote><div>thanks, I was googling for some x11 or kde api,  I \
guess I&#39;ll take a look at dbus <br><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" \
style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); \
padding-left: 1ex;">

but it seems rather weird to me that you want to watch the locker from<br>
the outside given that it actively embeds a layout switcher \
element.<br></blockquote><div>layout widget is quite passive element: it mostly just \
listens to xkb layout changes and displays the active layout, plus allows to switch \
it by pressing button, more than that it does not know where it&#39;s embedded in — \
it&#39;s the kded keyboard daemon which listens to window changes and switches active \
layout based on that.<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: \
0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> \
<div class="im">&gt; Also along the way, seems that keyboard layout widget that is \
shown in lock<br> &gt; dialog does not show a tooltip on the button even though I set \
it. I am curious<br> &gt; if this is some limitation of the lock dialog or I am doing \
something wrong.<br> &gt;<br>
</div>probably something to do with the mouse \
grab<br></blockquote><div><br>Thanks<br>Andriy <br></div></div><br>



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