Detecting user idleness
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Angus Helm
The uploader should be capable of detecting when the user has stepped away from the computer, and should not upload activity that occurred during that time.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Angus Helm
- Priority:
- Undefined
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- None
- Direction:
- Needs approval
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- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
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Implemented
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- Started by
- Angus Helm
- Completed by
- Angus Helm
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Basic idle time detection released in version 39, thanks to Lars.
Ideas of code bases to look at:
xscreensaver detects user idleness somehow. Probably very low-level X coding, though.
pidgin is able to detect when the user is idle, and set the user's status to "Idle".
Probably the best way to do it is to apt-get install python-xlib
then follow the code examples given here: http://
We should run this check before actually increasing the logged time per application, perhaps even before polling the running application.
(?)
