Thanks for the prompt Dave - made me start thinking ! TMouse gives all I need -

MMMM, depending on what DE you use, there are different approaches here, one would definitely be Xscreensaver, for example you could set it with only kdeinit-shutdown as screensaver, and neatly quit when it activates, or you add a line to kill a session manager etc.

I am not really sure that you will gain anything by programming it yourself though.

That said, if you do want to program this, try using something like SDL_Events, just don't open and SDL screen, and poll the mouse. I cannot guarantee it will work (at all) but it could.

If all else fails, you could always figure out a way to make unix domain sockets run promiscuous, then listen in on the X-server/Client coms :-)

A.J.

Is it possible within Lazarus to tell if the mouse has not moved and no key has been pressed for a period (similar to a screensaver timeout) ?

I need to watch for this for the entire screen / all apps, not just within my Laz app (to initiate a terminal logout)

Thanks

Hi Steve,

Would it be sufficient to let XScreenSaver (or equivalent) do this for you ?

If you need more than that.... I don't know, perhaps there is something in TScreen ?

Cheers
DC