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

[Terry Barnaby]

It would be worthwhile looking at the XRecord extension.
http://www.xfree86.org/current/recordlib.pdf

This is designed to record all XEvents as well as XRequests. It will
probably do most of what you required. We used it for a Blind/Visually
impaired XTerminal some time back.

Terry

On 06/03/10 11:30, Yose Widjaja wrote:
> Also, while I'm at it.. is there an easy way to print keysyms? I mean,
> looking at keysymdef.h there seems to be 2300 of them. Is there an X
> function to return the string of the name, or should I just go ahead and
> convert all those #defines into a switch statement?
>
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 10:19 PM, Yose Widjaja <ywid062 at gmail.com
> <mailto:ywid062 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     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
>     <mailto: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.
>
>         --
>         Tomasz Torcz "God, root, what's the difference?"
>         xmpp: zdzichubg at chrome.pl <mailto:zdzichubg at chrome.pl> "God is
>         more forgiving."
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