Idle Time in KDE

elconde · 05-16-2006, 02:33 PM

How would I find out how much time a user has been idle in KDE? Is there some DCOP command that can give this info? I'd like my music player (amaroK) to pause after an hour of non-activity.

macemoneta · 05-17-2006, 11:49 PM

The w command will list idle time.

elconde · 05-19-2006, 06:12 AM

Thanks. This doesn't show idle time within the display manager, but it shows idle time within any terminal I have open which is good enough.

robertmuil · 11-18-2015, 01:21 PM

Hi elconde,

Did you manage to do this?

I wanted this functionality also, and couldn't find anything to implement it so I wrote a script to do have Amarok pause on idle: https://github.com/robertmuil/amarok-idle-pause

My idle-detection is just activity in Amarok itself (playlist change, volume change, skip back etc.).

Perhaps it can be useful to you.

Rob.