powerMonitor.getSystemIdleTime() reports user idle on linux when using only keyboard (on Wayland)

[ssalenik]

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Issue Details

• Electron Version:
  10.0.2
  https://github.com/johannesjo/super-productivity/blob/master/package.json#L145

• Operating System:
  Ubuntu 20.10 x64 Wayland

• Last Known Working Electron version:
  N/A

Expected Behavior

When user is using only a keyboard (eg: editing files in Vim in running in a terminal emulator) powerMonitor.getSystemIdleTime() API does not detect this as idle time.

Actual Behavior

powerMonitor.getSystemIdleTime() detects the user is idle when user is using keyboard only in Vim

To Reproduce

Found this while using Super-Productivity app on latest release version 6.4.0 from Snap store. Bug filed here:
johannesjo/super-productivity#922

This app is using the powerMonitor API to detect when a user is idle to notify them after X number of minutes:
https://github.com/johannesjo/super-productivity/blob/03ff2fb0086225b9b56832e308b2751e2afc0f52/electron/main.ts#L146

Using the app I get this idle detection whenever I'm using the keyboard only in Vim for X number of minutes.

Screenshots

Additional Information

[ssalenik]

After some more investigation, I believe this might be related to Wayland. Seems that most idle detection methods on Linux used XScreenSaver or something similar relying on X which probably doesn't work on Wayland.

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[johannesjo]

Still relevant

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[hovancik]

still issue electron 22

[juliankoehn]

I am experiencing the same issue with Ubuntu Core 22 and Wayland while using Electron 22. The plugs I am using are as follows:

plugs:
- audio-playback
- hardware-observe
- power-control
- system-observe
- network
- network-bind
- opengl
- process-control
- wayland

Unfortunately, I am always receiving 'active' as the idle state. Has anyone found a workaround for this problem on Ubuntu Core 22 and Electron 22?

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[maymage]

.

[xeruf]

How about adding a label so this does not get marked as stale? This issue will stay relevant until it is fixed, which I would highly appreciate.

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[hovancik]

still issue

[hovancik]

still issue with 25, please remove stale

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[hovancik]

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[meenakshi-koushik]

I can easily reproduce this problem with electron v28 (and probably also with earlier versions) using electron-quick-start. By periodically logging powerMonitor.getSystemIdleTime() in main.js. When I run the app in X, the idle time reported increases monotonously as soon as I stop using keyboard/ mouse, while in Wayland (ubuntu 22.04, gnome) the idle time is always reported as 0.

[wolftune]

incidentally, I have heard there are multiple idle-time protocols in Wayland. KDE (kwin) has a different one from some other frameworks or something. I hope they will all be supported.

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[mcmxcdev]

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