screensaver

[Thomas Heller]

mis6 at pitt.edu (Michele Simionato) writes:

> I would like to disable/enable the screensaver on a Win98 box with a
> Python script. Any suggestion? Thanks,
>
>                Michele

A google search for 'disable screensaver windows' turns up VB code,
which easily translates into this Python code:

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import ctypes
SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE = 17

def StartScreenSaver(on):
    ctypes.windll.user32.SystemParametersInfoA(
                 SPI_SETSCREENSAVEACTIVE, on, None, 0)

StartScreenSaver(1)
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Unfortunately, it doesn't seem to work (for me, on XP. At least it has
no visible effect).

Thomas