actual scripts

netflix-screensaver.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Send a signal to DBus to inhibit the screensaver
+# if Netflix is running (and playing a movie)
+# 
+# Timothy Allen <tim@treehouse.org.za>
+
+import dbus
+import gobject
+import atexit
+
+from re import match, search
+from time import sleep
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
+from dbus.mainloop.glib import DBusGMainLoop
+
+debugging=0
+
+loop = gobject.MainLoop()
+dbus_loop = DBusGMainLoop()
+bus = dbus.SessionBus(mainloop=dbus_loop)
+screensaver = bus.get_object("org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver", "/org/freedesktop/ScreenSaver"); 
+
+def debug(text):
+    if debugging:
+        print text
+
+# Inhibit
+def inhibit():
+    debug("Inhibiting...")
+    return screensaver.Inhibit("netflix-desktop", "Playing a movie", dbus_interface="org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver")
+
+# Uninhibit
+def uninhibit(cookie):
+    if match("\d{2,}", str(cookie)):
+        debug("Uninhibiting...")
+        # Should return None
+        return screensaver.UnInhibit(cookie, dbus_interface="org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver")
+    else:
+        debug("No cookie, not uninhibiting")
+        return None
+
+atexit.register(loop.quit)
+
+if loop.is_running:
+    cookie=None
+    netflix_on=False
+    while True:
+        # Get process list
+        ps = Popen(['ps', 'ax'], shell=False, stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0]
+
+        # Search for the netflix process (and Silverlight to
+        # only inhibit if a movie is playing)
+        #if search("netflix-desktop", ps):
+        if search("netflix-desktop", ps) and search("Silverlight", ps):
+            netflix_on=True
+        else:
+            netflix_on=False
+        
+        if netflix_on == True and cookie == None:
+            cookie = inhibit()
+            atexit.register(uninhibit, cookie)
+            debug(cookie)
+        elif netflix_on == False and cookie != None:
+            cookie = uninhibit(cookie)
+            try:
+                atexit.unregister(uninhibit)
+            except (SyntaxError, AttributeError):
+                debug("No unregister for atexit. We must be running on an earlier version of python. No problem.")
+                pass
+            debug(cookie)
+        sleep(30)
+
+loop.run()
+
+# vi: filetype=python:expandtab:shiftwidth=4:softtabstop=4:tw=0