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

[Leo 'costela' Antunes <costela@debian.org>]

Hey,

Jon Dowland wrote:
> 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.

That's an interesting idea, but it means - if I got it right - pidgin
activates gnome-screensaver and not the other way around. This has the
problem of having to get used to two different actions to lock your
screen, depending on whether pidgin is active or not.


Cheers

-- 
Leo "costela" Antunes
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