IDLE TIMER

[] (https://travis-ci.org/sasagon/idletimer)

Idletimer behaves like a screen saver except that it does not blank screens and wake them up but executes preconfigured commands in ~/.idletimer.

Usage & Examples

$ idletimer

or

$ idletimer > /dev/null &

for background.

~/.idletimer contains one or more lines which consist of 3 items below:

• execution type (idle or wakeup)
• idling minute(s)
• command line text

which are separated with :.

Idletimer passes whole text after the second : to system() function. So you can use shell functions here.

Ex.1)

idle:3:~/bin/idling3min.sh

If your system does not detect any keyboard or mouse input for 3 minutes, then idletimer executes ~/bin/idling3min.sh

Ex.2)

idle:10:date "+%F %T idle" -d "@$((`date +%s` - 60 * 10))" >> ~/idle.log

If your system has been idle for just 10 minutes, then write the time to start idling (10 minutes before) to a log file.

Ex.3)

wakeup:300:python ~/bin/timecard.py >> ~/timecard.log

If you wake up your system after idling in 300 minutes or above, then idletimer executes ~/bin/timecard.py with python interpreter.

Command Line Options

-h                 print help message.
-v                 print configurations and actions verbosely.
-c config_file     specify a config file instead of ~/.idletimer

Requirements

• X11
• GTK+2 or 3
• libxss

Install

see Install.md

License

MIT License

Author

SASAKI Hiroshi sasagon@gmail.com