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Signal to suspend all monitors for a while

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Subject: Signal to suspend all monitors for a while
From: nf <nf2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 21:04:42 +0200
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Hi!

I'm currently working on a little tool to assist people with their
"umount - device is busy" problems.

http://www.scheinwelt.at/~norbertf/wbumount/

AFAIK "fam" plays a major role when people get in this kind of trouble. 

Would it be technically possible to send "fam" a signal to suspend ALL
monitors for a certain time-period (2-5 secs?). So that there is enough
time to do the umount? I would then add a little suid-root command to
wbumount to send the signal.

I know this sounds like a dirty fix, but it would probably be easier
than writing a full featured control- and status api (Which would still
be quite useful...).

Norbert








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