How to detect user activity - for a screensaver for example.

[Peter Hansen]

Hans Deragon wrote:
> 
> Greetings.
> 
>    If I want to write a screensaver for Linux using Python, how can I detect
> that the user has not touched the keyboard or mouse for the last 5 mins?

Simplest trivial way: check /proc/interrupts for relevant activity...

I'm sure there are more standard approaches, but without knowing what
they are, or knowing anything about, say, Google ;-), that's the 
approach I'd take.

-Peter