Use screen saver/locker to tag inactivity #39
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Hi! That sounds like a nice and reasonable extension! |
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Tracking inactivity via idle time is unsuitable if one wants to account for activities such as watching movies or reading difficult texts. As media players usually keep the screen saver/locker from triggering, tracking inactivity that way might be more accurate, as long as the screen saver trigger is set to low enough duration or the user diligently locks their screen when walking away. Currently implemented for X11 only, and even that implementation supports only a few desktop environments. Relates: nomeata#39
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Tracking inactivity via idle time is unsuitable if one wants to account for activities such as watching movies or reading difficult texts. As media players usually keep the screen saver/locker from triggering, tracking inactivity that way might be more accurate, as long as the screen saver trigger is set to low enough duration or the user diligently locks their screen when walking away. Currently implemented for X11 only, and even that implementation supports only a few desktop environments. Relates: nomeata#39
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Tracking inactivity via idle time is unsuitable if one wants to account for activities such as watching movies or reading difficult texts. As media players usually keep the screen saver/locker from triggering, tracking inactivity that way might be more accurate, as long as the screen saver trigger is set to low enough duration or the user diligently locks their screen when walking away. Currently implemented for X11 only, and even that implementation supports only a few desktop environments. Relates: nomeata#39
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Tracking inactivity via idle time is unsuitable if one wants to account for activities such as watching movies or reading difficult texts. As media players usually keep the screen saver/locker from triggering, tracking inactivity that way might be more accurate, as long as the screen saver trigger is set to low enough duration or the user diligently locks their screen when walking away. Currently implemented for X11 only, and even that implementation supports only a few desktop environments. Relates: nomeata#39
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Tracking inactivity via idle time is unsuitable if one wants to account for activities such as watching movies or reading difficult texts. As media players usually keep the screen saver/locker from triggering, tracking inactivity that way might be more accurate, as long as the screen saver trigger is set to low enough duration or the user diligently locks their screen when walking away. Currently implemented for X11 only, and even that implementation supports only a few desktop environments. Relates: nomeata#39
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Tracking inactivity via idle time is unsuitable if one wants to account for activities such as watching movies or reading difficult texts. As media players usually keep the screen saver/locker from triggering, tracking inactivity that way might be more accurate, as long as the screen saver trigger is set to low enough duration or the user diligently locks their screen when walking away. Currently implemented for X11 only, and even that implementation supports only a few desktop environments. Relates: nomeata#39
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Tracking inactivity via idle time is unsuitable if one wants to account for activities such as watching movies or reading difficult texts. As media players usually keep the screen saver/locker from triggering, tracking inactivity that way might be more accurate, as long as the screen saver trigger is set to low enough duration or the user diligently locks their screen when walking away. Currently implemented for X11 only, and even that implementation supports only a few desktop environments. Relates: nomeata#39
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Tracking inactivity via idle time is unsuitable if one wants to account for activities such as watching movies or reading difficult texts. As media players usually keep the screen saver/locker from triggering, tracking inactivity that way might be more accurate, as long as the screen saver trigger is set to low enough duration or the user diligently locks their screen when walking away. Currently implemented for X11 only, and even that implementation supports only a few desktop environments. Relates: nomeata#39
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I'd love to be able to track activities such as watching a movie or reading a dense (no scrolling for long time) blogpost, so tagging inactivity by idle time isn't suitable for my use cases. I happen to be quite consistent in locking the screen whenever I walk away, and should I forget, xss-lock takes care of it, so I'd like to use that for inactivity tagging. Unfortunately, the screen saver is transparent to xmonad/ewmh, so it's not being captured.
I guess I'd need to extend the capture format with this and then capture https://hackage.haskell.org/package/X11-1.9/docs/Graphics-X11-XScreenSaver.html#t:XScreenSaverState in addition to the idle time. Is this something possibly useful for others, shall I submit a PR then?
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