Using Xlib to measure productivity (aka time&keypresses spent on a window)

[Yose Widjaja]

Ah, thanks. Will be taking a look at that.

As for intercepting keyboards, I've hacked up something that uses
XQueryKeymap, and it seems to be working pretty well. Now only for mouse
movement detection (for idling check)

Cheers

p.s is making a keylogger meant to be this easy?

On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Tomasz Torcz <tomek at pipebreaker.pl> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 06:22:29PM +1100, Yose Widjaja wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Is this possible using Xlib? I'm trying to implement something like
> > RescueTime, an app to measure productivity, but for linux. The main
> purpose
> > of this is to measure how much time (and keypresses and clicks) I spend
> in
> > xterm and nedit compared to firefox..
> >
> > So is it possible to 1) get the actual binary name behind a window, 2)
> > intercept keypresses/mouse movements and re-relay them? Any info will be
> > much appreciated.
>
>   You could try to find som esource of Mugshot application by Red Hat.
> It was collecting information like that and making statistics of most
> used applications. IIRC, it was using libwnck to do the X11 part.
>
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