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2011-06-18 , 14:49
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Hi,
I'm trying to write an application that in some state needs to lock the phone. The application runs fullscreen and the user should only be able to reactivate the phone by a predefined PIN.
If the user presses the power button he can easily kill my application with "end current task" or he uses "Ctrl-Backspace" to activate the Taskmanager and kill the task then :/

Is there a way with python to disable both possibilities temporarily?
 
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2011-06-18 , 15:00
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Originally Posted by EmaNymton View Post
Hi,
I'm trying to write an application that in some state needs to lock the phone. The application runs fullscreen and the user should only be able to reactivate the phone by a predefined PIN.
If the user presses the power button he can easily kill my application with "end current task" or he uses "Ctrl-Backspace" to activate the Taskmanager and kill the task then :/

Is there a way with python to disable both possibilities temporarily?
but why you want disable it... ???
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2011-06-18 , 15:15
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but why you want disable it... ???
So you won't be able to bypass the security software...
 
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2011-06-18 , 15:28
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Best way I could think of to temporarily disable the power button menu:

Disable:
Code:
pkill -STOP systemui
Enable:
Code:
pkill -CONT systemui
If I remember right evilalarm tried to do something like this, you could look how it works.

I was once playing around with Qt and managed to create unkillable window
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2011-06-18 , 15:35
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Great, works for me!

Thank you for this short solution!

Remains the task swichter problem?!
 
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2011-06-18 , 15:45
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Originally Posted by EmaNymton View Post
Great, works for me!

Thank you for this short solution!

Remains the task swichter problem?!
The task switcher doesn't work when the window is a dialog
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