[bilbonvidia]

I was wondering if it is somehow possible to run a simple bash script some how when xbmc is idle / screen saver activates? This is on xbmcubuntu.

I came across this and was wondering is some variation of it could be used?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1029704

[ronie]

you could write a small python script that runs your bash script on idle / screensaver.

python scripts can use the xbmc monitor class to listen for onScreensaverActivated() calls.

getting the system idle time can be done through xbmc.getInfoLabel('system.idletime')

[marklouis1]

Thank you.