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Tracking idletimes

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From: gossamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Gossamer)
To: zsh-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Tracking idletimes
Date: 15 Dec 1998 23:27:42 GMT
Organization: Computing RJ
Reply-to: gossamer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Not quite on-topic but I can't think where else to ask!

I want to put together a daemon to track idletime, the sort of thing
that tells you to get up and stretch every half hour of worktime.

Trouble is, there's no way I can figure out to track "Last keypress in
any virtual terminal" (I don't and can't use X) and finger is reporting
invalid idletimes :(.

If I run a shellscript that calls other programs, the idletime for
that VT gets reset every time the secondary program is activated.  It
also seems to like to report Mutt as un-idle even when it is.

Any ideas?


bekj


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