Wow this is an old one, and seems to have gotten worse. Now even keyboard input does not reset the idle timer.
** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete => Triaged -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268780 Title: who (or w) does not report correctly idle time -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs