The correct way is to hook to some of the basic EVENT signals and then act upon receiving them. The signals you want to look for are:

• mouse motion
• key presses
• button presses

However, many widgets don't have their event masks properly set, so they will ignore these events. The following example shows how it should be done for a GtkWindow, ADDING the necessary event masks, and then hooking to the signals. Note that you WOULD have to alter the wakeup function to handle the timer operations you would need for a screensaver.

 def wakeup(widget, event):
print "Event number %d woke me up" % event.type

 w = gtk.Window()

 w.add_events(gtk.gdk.KEY_PRESS_MASK |
gtk.gdk.POINTER_MOTION_MASK |
gtk.gdk.BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | 
gtk.gdk.SCROLL_MASK)

 w.connect("motion-notify-event", wakeup)
 w.connect("key-press-event", wakeup)
 w.connect("button-press-event", wakeup)
 w.connect("scroll-event", wakeup)

 w.show()

 gtk.main()

Note that mouse "scroll-wheel" events are implemented as button clicks in the Xorg X11R6 server (button 4 for scroll up, button 5 for scroll down).

The correct way is to hook to some of the basic event signals and then act upon receiving them. The signals you want to look for are:

However, many widgets don't have their event masks properly set, so they will ignore these events. The following example shows how it should be done for a GtkWindow, adding the necessary event masks, and then hooking to the signals. Note that you would have to alter the wakeup function to handle the timer operations you would need for a screensaver.

 def wakeup(widget, event):
print "Event number %d woke me up" % event.type

 w = gtk.Window()

 w.add_events(gtk.gdk.KEY_PRESS_MASK |
gtk.gdk.POINTER_MOTION_MASK |
gtk.gdk.BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | 
gtk.gdk.SCROLL_MASK)

 w.connect("motion-notify-event", wakeup)
 w.connect("key-press-event", wakeup)
 w.connect("button-press-event", wakeup)
 w.connect("scroll-event", wakeup)

 w.show()

 gtk.main()

Note that mouse "scroll-wheel" events are implemented as button clicks in the Xorg X11R6 server (button 4 for scroll up, button 5 for scroll down).