Hi Friends,

I am trying to configure screensavers settings KDE
running Centos 5.x 32-bit/Ubuntu 11.x environment. I need to prepare a script which will be push by Puppet and this script should be able to change
settings like idle_delay, set customized password-protected screen
saver, enabling lock etc..

On KDE I am not able to get what settings should be there for enabling
idle_delay, activating the customized password protected screen saver
etc..

KDE Settings
$ qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver


Can somebody update me what commands I need to run through script to set the screen-saver settings.


Regards

Ankush

First, I would recommend finding out which configuration files under ~/.kde4 or ~/.kde are changing when you change the settings in System Settings.

Next, you can use "kreadconfig" and "kwriteconfig" to read/write the configuration files in question to determine their values and change them as needed.

As for getting the new settings loaded - there is likely a reparseConfiguration call accessible via D-Bus, under the org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver interface.

Hi Ben,

Thanks for sharing the information. Yes, the settings are indeed stored in .kde/share/config/kdesktoprc or in .kde/share/config/kscreensaverrc.


Only thing I am not able to do is to apply the changes through kwriteconfig. I am not able to find any reparseConfiguration call for ScreenSaver via DBus.

Can you share the reparseConfiguration call for Screensaver.


Regards

Ankush

Under KDE, run

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qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /MainApplication org.kde.KApplication.reparseConfiguration