Re: Implement LockWorkstation using xdg-screensaver from explorer

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Steven Edwards"  writes:
> This time in explorer....
>
> With this patch, Process Explorer no longer crashes when locking the
> workstation from within the application. If xdg-screensaver is not
> present on the system, explorer simply returns in which case
> LockWorkstion thinks it still succeeded. I still like the idea of
> having our own screensaver for Desktop mode and running that when
> LockWorkstation is called. If this is accepted then I will either add
> a check for desktop mode to avoid the call to xdg-screensaver or write
> a wine scr that only runs in Desktop mode.

To be able to do that you need to send the request to the existing
explorer process, not start a new one.

Implement LockWorkstation using xdg-screensaver from explorer

[Steven Edwards]

On 7/27/07, Alexandre Julliard  wrote:
> To be able to do that you need to send the request to the existing
> explorer process, not start a new one.

Is there any place where this is already done so I have an idea of how
to connect to the existing process?

Thanks
Steven

Implement LockWorkstation using xdg-screensaver from explorer

[Alexandre Julliard]

"Steven Edwards"  writes:
> Is there any place where this is already done so I have an idea of how
> to connect to the existing process?

Some sort of SendMessage to the desktop window should do the trick.

Implement LockWorkstation using xdg-screensaver from explorer

[Steven Edwards]

On 7/27/07, Alexandre Julliard  wrote:
> Some sort of SendMessage to the desktop window should do the trick.

Please ignore my other email to you. So something like this? Thanks
for Vitaman on IRC for pointing out that spawnvp killed the calling
process.