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Use screen saver/locker to tag inactivity #39

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liskin opened this issue Dec 5, 2020 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #40
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Use screen saver/locker to tag inactivity #39

liskin opened this issue Dec 5, 2020 · 1 comment · May be fixed by #40

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liskin commented Dec 5, 2020

I'd love to be able to track activities such as watching a movie or reading a dense (no scrolling for long time) blogpost, so tagging inactivity by idle time isn't suitable for my use cases. I happen to be quite consistent in locking the screen whenever I walk away, and should I forget, xss-lock takes care of it, so I'd like to use that for inactivity tagging. Unfortunately, the screen saver is transparent to xmonad/ewmh, so it's not being captured.

I guess I'd need to extend the capture format with this and then capture https://hackage.haskell.org/package/X11-1.9/docs/Graphics-X11-XScreenSaver.html#t:XScreenSaverState in addition to the idle time. Is this something possibly useful for others, shall I submit a PR then?
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nomeata commented Dec 5, 2020

Hi! That sounds like a nice and reasonable extension!

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Record screen saver/locker status (X11)
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Tracking inactivity via idle time is unsuitable if one wants to account
for activities such as watching movies or reading difficult texts.
As media players usually keep the screen saver/locker from triggering,
tracking inactivity that way might be more accurate, as long as the
screen saver trigger is set to low enough duration or the user
diligently locks their screen when walking away.

Currently implemented for X11 only, and even that implementation
supports only a few desktop environments.

Relates: nomeata#39
liskin added a commit to liskin/arbtt that referenced this issue Dec 6, 2020
@liskin
Record screen saver/locker status (X11)
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Tracking inactivity via idle time is unsuitable if one wants to account
for activities such as watching movies or reading difficult texts.
As media players usually keep the screen saver/locker from triggering,
tracking inactivity that way might be more accurate, as long as the
screen saver trigger is set to low enough duration or the user
diligently locks their screen when walking away.

Currently implemented for X11 only, and even that implementation
supports only a few desktop environments.

Relates: nomeata#39
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@liskin
Record screen saver/locker status (X11)
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Tracking inactivity via idle time is unsuitable if one wants to account
for activities such as watching movies or reading difficult texts.
As media players usually keep the screen saver/locker from triggering,
tracking inactivity that way might be more accurate, as long as the
screen saver trigger is set to low enough duration or the user
diligently locks their screen when walking away.

Currently implemented for X11 only, and even that implementation
supports only a few desktop environments.

Relates: nomeata#39
liskin added a commit to liskin/arbtt that referenced this issue Feb 21, 2021
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Make $screensaver available
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@liskin
Record screen saver/locker status (X11)
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Tracking inactivity via idle time is unsuitable if one wants to account
for activities such as watching movies or reading difficult texts.
As media players usually keep the screen saver/locker from triggering,
tracking inactivity that way might be more accurate, as long as the
screen saver trigger is set to low enough duration or the user
diligently locks their screen when walking away.

Currently implemented for X11 only, and even that implementation
supports only a few desktop environments.

Relates: nomeata#39
liskin added a commit to liskin/arbtt that referenced this issue Mar 5, 2021
@liskin
Make $screensaver available
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liskin added a commit to liskin/arbtt that referenced this issue Mar 5, 2021
@liskin
Record screen saver/locker status (X11)
a1efd4c 
Tracking inactivity via idle time is unsuitable if one wants to account
for activities such as watching movies or reading difficult texts.
As media players usually keep the screen saver/locker from triggering,
tracking inactivity that way might be more accurate, as long as the
screen saver trigger is set to low enough duration or the user
diligently locks their screen when walking away.

Currently implemented for X11 only, and even that implementation
supports only a few desktop environments.

Relates: nomeata#39
liskin added a commit to liskin/arbtt that referenced this issue Mar 5, 2021
@liskin
Make $screensaver available
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liskin added a commit to liskin/arbtt that referenced this issue Mar 5, 2021
@liskin
Record screen saver/locker status (X11)
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Tracking inactivity via idle time is unsuitable if one wants to account
for activities such as watching movies or reading difficult texts.
As media players usually keep the screen saver/locker from triggering,
tracking inactivity that way might be more accurate, as long as the
screen saver trigger is set to low enough duration or the user
diligently locks their screen when walking away.

Currently implemented for X11 only, and even that implementation
supports only a few desktop environments.

Relates: nomeata#39
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Record screen saver/locker status (X11)
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Tracking inactivity via idle time is unsuitable if one wants to account
for activities such as watching movies or reading difficult texts.
As media players usually keep the screen saver/locker from triggering,
tracking inactivity that way might be more accurate, as long as the
screen saver trigger is set to low enough duration or the user
diligently locks their screen when walking away.

Currently implemented for X11 only, and even that implementation
supports only a few desktop environments.

Relates: nomeata#39
liskin added a commit to liskin/arbtt that referenced this issue Mar 9, 2022
@liskin
Make $screensaver available
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liskin added a commit to liskin/arbtt that referenced this issue Mar 10, 2022
@liskin
Record screen saver/locker status (X11)
301d66d 
Tracking inactivity via idle time is unsuitable if one wants to account
for activities such as watching movies or reading difficult texts.
As media players usually keep the screen saver/locker from triggering,
tracking inactivity that way might be more accurate, as long as the
screen saver trigger is set to low enough duration or the user
diligently locks their screen when walking away.

Currently implemented for X11 only, and even that implementation
supports only a few desktop environments.

Relates: nomeata#39
liskin added a commit to liskin/arbtt that referenced this issue Mar 10, 2022
@liskin
Make $screensaver available
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