Tuesday 14 June 2011

Reading and writing GSettings from Python

Here's the class I wrote to read/write the screensaver settings from GSettings. It's probably not in the best Python style, but it illustrates the idea.


from gi.repository import Gio,GLib

class GnomeScreenLock:

IDLE_DELAY_SCHEMA = 'org.gnome.desktop.session'
IDLE_DELAY_KEY = 'idle-delay'

IDLE_ACTIVATION_SCHEMA = 'org.gnome.desktop.screensaver'
IDLE_ACTIVATION_KEY = 'idle-activation-enabled'

def getIdleDelay(self):
gsettings = Gio.Settings.new(self.IDLE_DELAY_SCHEMA)
return gsettings.get_value(self.IDLE_DELAY_KEY).get_uint32()

def setIdleDelay(self,delaySeconds):
gsettings = Gio.Settings.new(self.IDLE_DELAY_SCHEMA)
gsettings.set_value(self.IDLE_DELAY_KEY,GLib.Variant.new_uint32(delaySeconds))

def isIdleActivationEnabled(self):
gsettings = Gio.Settings.new(self.IDLE_ACTIVATION_SCHEMA)
return gsettings.get_boolean(self.IDLE_ACTIVATION_KEY)

def setIdleActivationStatus(self,activation):
gsettings = Gio.Settings.new(self.IDLE_ACTIVATION_SCHEMA)
gsettings.set_boolean(self.IDLE_ACTIVATION_KEY,activation)

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