Good point One I am looking for, is time since last user mouse or keyboard action. So I guess I am looking for the exact same thing a screensaver is looking for
On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:27 +0000, "Seebs" <usenet-nos...@seebs.net> wrote: > On 2010-09-29, Hugo L?veill? <hu...@fastmail.net> wrote: > > I have found it for windows and mac, but no luck under linux. Any idea? > > I don't think it's semantically well-defined. What makes a system > "idle"? > > Is the machine in my basement idle? I don't think anyone's touched the > keyboard in a week, but it's spent a big chunk of that time with 100% CPU > load across all eight processors, and I was running a bunch of work on > it yesterday, including interactive sessions. > > Windows and Mac systems *typically* have a well-defined "console" on > which > the primary user is active... But as a counterexample, my news reader is > actually running on an OS X box that's about fifty feet from me, which I > connect to via ssh. > > I would be very curious to see whether your test for "system idle time" > would realize that the machine I'm currently working on is actively in > use, > even though I don't think the console is even logged in... > > Basically, I can't help you, but I can tell you that you are quite > possibly > asking the wrong question. > > -s > -- > Copyright 2010, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / > usenet-nos...@seebs.net > http://www.seebs.net/log/ <-- lawsuits, religion, and funny pictures > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Game_(Scientology) <-- get educated! > I am not speaking for my employer, although they do rent some of my > opinions. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Hugo Léveillé hu...@fastmail.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
