[maemo-developers] How to catch “lock screen event”?

From: Eero Tamminen eero.tamminen at nokia.com
Date: Fri Jul 30 11:43:17 EEST 2010
Hi,

ext Xin Zhang wrote:
> I'm developing a game for n900 using SDL. How do I catch system events (like lock screen switch turned on/off, screen gets locked automatically, or incoming call during game play)? 
> 
> Right now when the game is running, I could not catch the system events (like lock screen switch turned on/off, screen gets locked automatically, or incoming call during game play). Therefore, the game is still active running even screen is locked. I hope I can catch these system events and make the game paused. Could anyone give me some direction in fixing the problem? 
> 
> I've posted a thread in [http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=59238]. Many thanks!

Your window loses focus and it isn't anymore the topmost window.
When the screen is blanked, there's additionally also a D-BUS message.


	- Eero
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