Important
This repository is archived and no longer maintained.
Development continues in bkbilly/dbus_idle —
an actively maintained fork of this initial work, published on PyPI as
dbus-idle.
The API is unchanged (from dbus_idle import IdleMonitor); switch with
pip install dbus-idle (see its README for system dependencies).
Detect user idle time or inactivity on Linux and Windows.
WARNING This project is in an alpha status! Though there is already some code to support Windows, it has only been tested on Wayland/Gnome.
- Python 3.6 or later
Install using pip install idle-time
You can use this module from the command line
python -m idle-time
or access the current idle time from within your python program
from idle_time import IdleMonitor
monitor = IdleMonitor.get_monitor()
monitor.get_idle_time()