Hi, 2009/9/1 Niklas Koponen <niklas.kopo...@iki.fi>: > I use dwm and my goal is to automatically track my working hours. I've > always been poor in manually writing down my working hours to some > calendar or using some manual tracking tool. > > My plan is to take a snaphot of the root window at certain intervals > if there has been some mouse or keyboard activity. I also record the > amount of activity. Then I store the information and at the end of the > month I just generate a report based on this information. > > I use import to take the snapshot, and I was going to use xev to check > for event activity by attaching xev to the window that has focus. The > problem at the moment is that I don't know how to find out which is > the window that has focus and gets the input. > > I'm not a C-programmer and my plan was to quickly prototype this with > some scripting language. > > So how do I know (from the shell) which window has focus in dwm? > > Or better yet, has anybody already implemented this kind of tracking?
You could also use the X screen saver extension to track idleness and add that up and subtract the result from the actual uptime. But how do you track the time of thinking? Kind regards, Anselm
