I'm not entirely sure. The widget itself doesn't do anything to ensure that it's not running when the screen is off. I don't know anything about the internals of hildon-home or hildon-desktop and whether it suspends widget activity when the screen is off. If you do know how I can implement this, please let me know, I'd be happy to implement it.


@gregoranderson

Thanks for the ideas. In the roadmap on the wiki page I've listed a similar idea. I have the backend written and I'm currently testing it. All that remains is to expose the functionality through a nice GUI. As a newbie to pymaemo and pygtk, writing a nice GUI takes quite a bit of time.
I have entered the widget into the 2012 Coding Competition which requires a feature freeze during the voting stages. I dont think I'll be able to have the new features ready by the start of the voting stage, but I'll definitely have a release out as soon as the competition ends.


In the meantime, does anyone know how I can make the phone vibrate or play the default alert sound using pymaemo? I've looked at the wiki and other documentation but I can't find anything. I may have missed something, so any pointers are welcome.