Bug#513846: ITP: pidgin-awayonlock -- pidgin plugin to set as away on screensaver activation

To: Leo costela Antunes <costela@debian.org>, 513846@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#513846: ITP: pidgin-awayonlock -- pidgin plugin to set as away on screensaver activation
From: Jon Dowland <jon+bts@alcopop.org>
Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 23:53:28 +0000
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Reply-to: Jon Dowland <jon+bts@alcopop.org>, 513846@bugs.debian.org
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On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 07:17:23PM +0100, Leo costela Antunes wrote:
> Away-on-Lock is a simple plugin for pidgin (or any other libpurple-based
> IM client) to change your status when the screensaver gets activated.

One way to achieve the same thing is to set a buddy pounce on yourself
which activates when you change status and triggers a shell script that
invokes gnome-screensaver-command --lock or xscreensaver-command -lock
or whatever. Harder is setting status back to available when you unlock.

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