Monitoring Screensaver Events in OSX

Question

I want to monitor screensaver and lockscreen events on an OSX box. As a first pass, I\'m fine with them just printing to the console.

Following the advice of another\'s

Answer 1

You've commented your problem already.

while(1); // busy wait's bad, I know, but easy to implement

The above is almost ALWAYS a bad idea.

NSDistributedNotificationCenter actually requires a running main thread NSRunLoop to operate.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/cocoa/Conceptual/Notifications/Articles/NotificationCenters.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000216-BAJGDAFC

Creating and spinning a run loop from the main() of a command line application on OS X is a fairly simple thing to do. There are plenty of examples available with a quick search.