Find X idle time

jlinkels · 01-23-2007, 08:00 PM

I am trying to find a command to get X idle time (user inactivity), preferably something I can call from a shell script.

I know the whole system is full of idle timers, but I just seem not being able to find one in user space.

I only found xprintidle, but this command only seems to run from a xwindow console which makes it pretty useless as you always just did something in X to issue the command.

jlinkels

unSpawn · 01-23-2007, 08:33 PM

If prefab hints are all you need, I recently posted one idle tracker here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...93#post2591493. With a bit of tweaking you should be able to confine 'ps' output to either a SID, PPID, UID or whatever you fancy.

jlinkels · 01-25-2007, 06:02 PM

Thanks... it is more ..uhm.. complicated than I expected, I would have expected something like echo /proc/sys/idletime or so. After all this is Linux....

But I'll give it a try and see how far I come.

jlinkels