dbus-idle
Python library to detect user idle time in milliseconds (and from that, inactivity) on Linux, Windows, and macOS.
Requirements
- Python 3.7 or later
- One of the following:
- D-Bus with
org.freedesktop.DBusinterface xprintidlecommand- libX11 with
XScreenSaverInfo swayidlecommand- Windows
- macOS
- D-Bus with
Installation
Install using:
sudo apt install meson libdbus-glib-1-dev patchelf
pip install dbus-idle
On non-Linux systems,
pip install dbus-idle
Usage
You can use this module from the command line
dbus-idle
or access the current idle time from within your python program
from dbus_idle import IdleMonitor
milliseconds = IdleMonitor().get_dbus_idle()
IdleMonitor.is_idle() uses a 120-second threshold by default. Both
idle_threshold and get_dbus_idle() use milliseconds:
monitor = IdleMonitor(idle_threshold=120_000)
Contribution
This is based on the work by Alexander Frenzel
1 maintainer
Metadata
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