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Hi all, How to get the idle time of keyboard and mouse in linux?? Thanks in advance!! -g.phanibabu...
  1. 05-20-2011 #1
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    Unhappy Keyboard & Mouse Idle times

    Hi all,

    How to get the idle time of keyboard and mouse in linux??

    Thanks in advance!!

    -g.phanibabu
    Last edited by g.phanibabu; 05-20-2011 at 10:43 AM.
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    Write X11 code that traps keyboard and mouse events, and when it sees such will start a timer. You could then send a message to the application and it could return the idle time information to you. However, this communication would have to be from either another computer, or an application that is running without need for keyboard/mouse input.

    FWIW, there are a lot of tools running on your system that do this already, such as the screen saver or applications such as Pidgin and Skype that will change your status to "away" after some period of keyboard/mouse idle time. Pidgin is open source (skype is not), so you can get the source code for that to find out how to do what you want.
    Sometimes, real fast is almost as good as real time.
    Just remember, Semper Gumbi - always be flexible!
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