Debian and other OSes already have a program called 'xprintidle',
which does the same thing as x11idle. It also handles the DPMS bug[1]
some version of X servers have.
In order to use an alternative, introduce a customizable variable
'org-clock-x11idle-program-name' to hold the actual command name.
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=502226
---
doc/org.texi | 14 --
lisp/org-clock.el | 19 ---
2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/org.texi b/doc/org.texi
index cb451fc..99d82bb 100644
--- a/doc/org.texi
+++ b/doc/org.texi
@@ -6350,12 +6350,14 @@ as 10 or 15, Emacs can alert you when you get back to
your computer after
being idle for that many minutes@footnote{On computers using Mac OS X,
idleness is based on actual user idleness, not just Emacs' idle time. For
X11, you can install a utility program @file{x11idle.c}, available in the
-@code{contrib/scripts} directory of the Org git distribution, to get the same
-general treatment of idleness. On other systems, idle time refers to Emacs
-idle time only.}, and ask what you want to do with the idle time. There will
-be a question waiting for you when you get back, indicating how much idle
-time has passed (constantly updated with the current amount), as well as a
-set of choices to correct the discrepancy:
+@code{contrib/scripts} directory of the Org git distribution, or install the
+@file{xprintidle} package and set it to the variable
+@code{org-clock-x11idle-program-name} if you are running Debian, to get the
+same general treatment of idleness. On other systems, idle time refers to
+Emacs idle time only.}, and ask what you want to do with the idle time.
+There will be a question waiting for you when you get back, indicating how
+much idle time has passed (constantly updated with the current amount), as
+well as a set of choices to correct the discrepancy:
@table @kbd
@item k
diff --git a/lisp/org-clock.el b/lisp/org-clock.el
index 8d11b8c..d0605aa 100644
--- a/lisp/org-clock.el
+++ b/lisp/org-clock.el
@@ -374,6 +374,19 @@ specifications than `frame-title-format', which see."
:group 'org-clock
:type 'sexp)
+(defcustom org-clock-x11idle-program-name "x11idle"
+ "Name of the program which prints X11 idle time in milliseconds.
+
+You can find x11idle.c in the contrib/scripts directory of the
+Org git distribution. Or, you can do:
+
+sudo apt-get install xprintidle
+
+if you are using Debian."
+ :group 'org-clock
+ :version "24.3"
+ :type 'string)
+
(defvar org-clock-in-prepare-hook nil
"Hook run when preparing the clock.
This hook is run before anything happens to the task that
@@ -1012,13 +1025,13 @@ If `only-dangling-p' is non-nil, only ask to resolve
dangling
(defvar org-x11idle-exists-p
;; Check that x11idle exists
(and (eq window-system 'x)
- (eq (call-process-shell-command "command" nil nil nil "-v" "x11idle") 0)
+ (eq (call-process-shell-command "command" nil nil nil "-v"
org-clock-x11idle-program-name) 0)
;; Check that x11idle can retrieve the idle time
- (eq (call-process-shell-command "x11idle" nil nil nil) 0)))
+ (eq (call-process-shell-command org-clock-x11idle-program-name nil nil
nil) 0)))
(defun org-x11-idle-seconds ()
"Return the current X11 idle time in seconds."
- (/ (string-to-number (shell-command-to-string "x11idle")) 1000))
+ (/ (string-to-number (shell-command-to-string
org-clock-x11idle-program-name)) 1000))
(defun org-user-idle-seconds ()
"Return the number of seconds the user has been idle for.
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