[svlug] For how long have I been idle

Seth David Schoen schoen at loyalty.org
Sun Jun 3 09:28:13 PDT 2012


norm at dad.org writes:

> If I look at the modification times of /dev/pts/[0-9]*", I can detect keyboard activity, but
> not mouse activity. In fact, mouse activity does not affect the modification time of any
> file anywhere in /dev.
> 
> So.... how can I detect the times of mouse activity?

http://www.alex.ballas.org/2010/11/19/print-your-x-idle-time/

This seems to work properly.

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