Re: Determine time of last keystroke and mouse movement

[Orion Poplawski <orion cora nwra com>]

Adam Jackson wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 14:49 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> > Is there anyway for periodic (cron like) job running as root on Fedora 
> > 10 (and up) to determine time of the last keypress and mouse movement? 
> > Back in the day I could look at the access time of /dev/tty7, but this 
> > appears to be no longer the case (even when moving to /dev/tty1 to 
> > account for the vt1 X shift).  Any ideas on how to determine this would 
> > be greatly appreciated.
>
> You want the IDLETIME XSync counter in the running X session.  Gnome
> already uses this to determine session idleness.
>
> - ajax

That assumes running inside the X session though right?  This is a 
system process started at boot.

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