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

[Yose Widjaja]

Okay nearly there.. I was able to get the pid of some windows (namely,
xterm), but when I tried it on chrome or nedit, getproperty returns with
nitems == 0. Is there a reason why, and would there be workarounds for this?
I just need a way to identify a window as "xterm", or "nedit" or "chrome".

My nedit windows, right now, don't have "nedit" as title. Then again I guess
I could make it so it does, but that seems like a "hacky" solution..

On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 12:26 AM, Terry Barnaby <terry1 at beam.ltd.uk> wrote:

> 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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