Determine time of last keystroke and mouse movement
Orion Poplawski
orion at cora.nwra.com
Wed May 13 22:24:26 UTC 2009
Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 14:49 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> Is there anyway for periodic (cron like) job running as root on Fedora
>> 10 (and up) to determine time of the last keypress and mouse movement?
>> Back in the day I could look at the access time of /dev/tty7, but this
>> appears to be no longer the case (even when moving to /dev/tty1 to
>> account for the vt1 X shift). Any ideas on how to determine this would
>> be greatly appreciated.
>
> You want the IDLETIME XSync counter in the running X session. Gnome
> already uses this to determine session idleness.
>
> - ajax
>
That assumes running inside the X session though right? This is a
system process started at boot.
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