Record screen saver/locker status for inactivity tagging #40
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| -- This most likely only works with the simple built-in screen saver | ||
| -- configured using @xset s@. Screen savers/lockers such as xscreensaver, | ||
| -- xsecurelock, i3lock, etc. work differently. |
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Ah, too bad. I was hoping this simple interface sufficies, and we’d not have to worry about dbus dependencies, error handling, and the cost of doing dbus calls on each sample :-/
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Yeah, it's quite disappointing. Doing 5 dbus calls on each sample to discard 4 of them is bad. Caching which one works and which one just returns errors would be possible, but the code will get considerably more complex. :-(
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Maybe submit patches to the screensavers to set the X11 screen saver satus correctly? :-)
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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
Relates: nomeata#39
This makes it possible to detect locked session in a multi-session setup. Beware, this is niche among niches: very few people use user systemd and multiple X sessions together, as it's not supported by any desktop environments.
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I just discoverd this after creating my issue #163 |
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@gitlerat Sure, I could try to remember to switch all three monitors to an empty virtual desktop every time I leave my computer and make a rule like |
Yeah I understand your point! So I am right that this feature is not in debian versin 0.10.2-0.2? (screenlocker detection) |
Indeed. It's not even merged to arbtt upstream yet. The reason it's not merged is because I only got it working for myself, then realised it probably doesn't work in many other scenarios (different desktop environments, different screensavers, …; also the implementation for Win/Mac isn't there at all), but never really managed to get back to it and actually test it, document it, possibly even do the work needed to support the different environments. I think it's somewhat likely to work in GNOME, so it'd certainly make sense to test it, doc it (including the limitations) and get it merged. Even that is probably an afternoon's worth of work and getting that prioritised over all the other stuff going on in my life these days is a challenge. :-/ It is still on my personal TODO list, though, so it's not forgotten. |
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.
Closes: #39