How to identify system idle status from remote in Red Hat Enterprise Linux?

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Issue

  • I want to know when a computer is in screensaver mode and run a script to be warned that this computer is in screensaver mode.
  • Is there any way to detect if system is idle?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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