Activity Logger

Activity Logger is a lightweigt activity logger written in C for X11 (and wayland, see below).

Activity Logger is extremely lightweight. How much you may ask, and why such a claim ? Well, see in section below

Features

• Session duration with first and last entry
• Sort applications by time spent on them
• Sort windows names by time spent on them
• Longuest sessions without window switching
• Analyze multiple log files
• Filter activities by keywords
• A daemon

Todolist :

• Autorestart if the logger fails (daemon)
• Adapt the ouput size with the terminal size (displays ... if too long)
• Detects if file is empty.
• Add argument parsing, for each output
• Longests sessions without window switching
• Output time in days & hours & minutes according to their duration
• Analyze multiple log files at once (-l X)
• Add active time (with %)
• Add % per application on total active time
• Print active time removing Shutdown and Desktop activities (--factive)
• Change active time for the used activity when using the filter option
• -a / --all flag
• Exclude, filter activites by keywords
• Add option to exclude "Desktop" window logs
• Add a folder option for all .wins files
• Add openrc script & update README
• Update filter to also support exact queries
• Split a logfile in two
• Output time in seconds if < to min
• Support reading last N logfiles by first entry
• Support wayland ! - It's almost here ! see below
• Complete README. It's missing so much stuff
• Fix bug when the last entry has a [XXX-999] timestamp
• Correct file encoding issue
• Activity history with duration and in tree if same process
• Sort windows names by application name
• Add window name on startup
• Add the timestamp of longuests sessions
• Read last files by header instead of by date modification (i.e subsequent modification)
• Dumping data (--json)
• Ignore window switch if long session interupted by a quick switch

Ideas - Keylogger feature

• Sort applications according to the number of keystrokes made
• Sort applications according to the keyboard typing speed
• Add options for statistics for the number of keystrokes per sessions, window name, applications
• Keylogging only for specified applications.
• Detect when user is AFK ? (i.e. no mouse or keyboard events for x seconds, which would no longer require the user to need to change the targeted window on the desktop (none) before going AFK).

Exemple output

Usage

Compile the code.

make

To start the logger

./status.sh start

To start the logger as a daemon. Always keeps an instance running.

Checks if an instance is running and if not start one.

./status.sh daemon

Start the logger in a specific folder. By default, log files will be dumped in current folder, if LOGGER_DIR env variable has not been set.

LOGGER_DIR=data ./status.sh daemon

To stop the daemon

./status.sh kill

To stop all running instances. Note : if the daemon is running, it will restart one.

./status.sh stop

At any time, you can watch where a summary of your latest activities by using

py stats.py or py stats.py <date>.wins

By default, if no log file is specified, the last modified .wins file will be read.

So lightweight you forget it's active !

When running, the logger uses only 13 MB of RAM.

Over on year of activity has been logged for only 61Mo.

The logger only dumps when a window change is detected, and this when some events are triggered by the desktop environment API. activity-logger lacks an AFK detector, but this is the todo-list. You can always specify AFK (shown as Desktop) times, using the clean.sh file or manual edits.

The code itself is light, with only 400 lines of code, but it also consumes extremely little, especially when compared to activity-watch, which admittedly has more features and is prettier, but is also much much more bloated.

Wayland support

Wayland support is almost here !

Well, it can be compiled ! but with some extra unecessary steps ...
Let me explain !

Here's the (unecessary overkill) installation process for wayland support :

• Clone and install the wlroots git repository
• copy the wayland_logger.c file to wlroots/examples/
• edit wlroots/examples/meson.build, and in the clients = {, section (~ line 60) append the following :

  	'wayland_logger': {
    	'src': 'wayland_logger.c',
    	'proto': ['wlr-foreign-toplevel-management-unstable-v1'],
    },

• now in wlroots/, compile ! :

  $ meson setup --reconfigure build
  $ cd build
  $ ninja

• Copy the compiled executable to activity-logger/

Here it should work.
Despite my best efforts so far, I haven't managed to enable a simplified compilation with just the bare essentials ... but I'd be very grateful for anyone who'd like to help solve the problem! Don't hesitate to open a PR or come discuss about it at #2

Keylogger feature (not included by default)

In addition, a small keylogger has been implemented, which is not yet in use. It could be used in the future.

To enable it, git apply keylogger.diff.

For each keystroke, a new line will be written in <date>.keys including the timestamp in microseconds, the mouse position at that moment, the state and the code of the key.

Known issues

This tool is in beta stage. Please don't mind if you you encounter a problem, and feel free to open an Issue for any suggestion or bug !

• A free(): invalid pointer and IOT instruction errors occurs at program stop. Not sure why they appear ?