Is it possible track user idle time (mouse/keyboard input) in Linux (without external libraries or programs)
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So far my research has failed me to find a way how to track user activity natively in Python under Linux (gui based) - closest thing i could find is to use the "w | awk 'if (NR!=1) print $1,$5 '" and 'who -u -H' commands and read the context with Popen stdout, however it doesn't seem to work under CentOS 7 - at least not when i try and run it in a loop - it seems something is resetting the timer if that command actually works - strange thing is if that's what's happening is the screen saver works and locks the screen - so the OS certainly doesn't use that to track user activity. I am running centos7 under VM on windows 10 if that matters.
Any suggestions?
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So far my research has failed me to find a way how to track user activity natively in Python under Linux (gui based) - closest thing i could find is to use the "w | awk 'if (NR!=1) print $1,$5 '" and 'who -u -H' commands and read the context with Popen stdout, however it doesn't seem to work under CentOS 7 - at least not when i try and run it in a loop - it seems something is resetting the timer if that command actually works - strange thing is if that's what's happening is the screen saver works and locks the screen - so the OS certainly doesn't use that to track user activity. I am running centos7 under VM on windows 10 if that matters.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
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w/whomeasures CPU time used, that has nothing to do w/ interactive or not. If a process runs as the user (even the screensaver will do ;}) the counter is going up.
– tink
Nov 12 at 1:36
@tink thx for explaining that to me! I thought about it at one point - idk why i dismissed it lol. Thx again!
– masky007
Nov 12 at 2:53
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So far my research has failed me to find a way how to track user activity natively in Python under Linux (gui based) - closest thing i could find is to use the "w | awk 'if (NR!=1) print $1,$5 '" and 'who -u -H' commands and read the context with Popen stdout, however it doesn't seem to work under CentOS 7 - at least not when i try and run it in a loop - it seems something is resetting the timer if that command actually works - strange thing is if that's what's happening is the screen saver works and locks the screen - so the OS certainly doesn't use that to track user activity. I am running centos7 under VM on windows 10 if that matters.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
python linux
asked Nov 11 at 23:17
masky007
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So far my research has failed me to find a way how to track user activity natively in Python under Linux (gui based) - closest thing i could find is to use the "w | awk 'if (NR!=1) print $1,$5 '" and 'who -u -H' commands and read the context with Popen stdout, however it doesn't seem to work under CentOS 7 - at least not when i try and run it in a loop - it seems something is resetting the timer if that command actually works - strange thing is if that's what's happening is the screen saver works and locks the screen - so the OS certainly doesn't use that to track user activity. I am running centos7 under VM on windows 10 if that matters.
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
python linux
python linux
asked Nov 11 at 23:17
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asked Nov 11 at 23:17
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asked Nov 11 at 23:17
masky007
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asked Nov 11 at 23:17
masky007
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asked Nov 11 at 23:17
masky007
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w/whomeasures CPU time used, that has nothing to do w/ interactive or not. If a process runs as the user (even the screensaver will do ;}) the counter is going up.
– tink
Nov 12 at 1:36
@tink thx for explaining that to me! I thought about it at one point - idk why i dismissed it lol. Thx again!
– masky007
Nov 12 at 2:53
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w/whomeasures CPU time used, that has nothing to do w/ interactive or not. If a process runs as the user (even the screensaver will do ;}) the counter is going up.
– tink
Nov 12 at 1:36
@tink thx for explaining that to me! I thought about it at one point - idk why i dismissed it lol. Thx again!
– masky007
Nov 12 at 2:53
w / who measures CPU time used, that has nothing to do w/ interactive or not. If a process runs as the user (even the screensaver will do ;}) the counter is going up.– tink
Nov 12 at 1:36
w / who measures CPU time used, that has nothing to do w/ interactive or not. If a process runs as the user (even the screensaver will do ;}) the counter is going up.– tink
Nov 12 at 1:36
@tink thx for explaining that to me! I thought about it at one point - idk why i dismissed it lol. Thx again!
– masky007
Nov 12 at 2:53
@tink thx for explaining that to me! I thought about it at one point - idk why i dismissed it lol. Thx again!
– masky007
Nov 12 at 2:53
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w/whomeasures CPU time used, that has nothing to do w/ interactive or not. If a process runs as the user (even the screensaver will do ;}) the counter is going up.– tink
Nov 12 at 1:36
@tink thx for explaining that to me! I thought about it at one point - idk why i dismissed it lol. Thx again!
– masky007
Nov 12 at 2:53