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by Yorik on 17.03.2013 in linux , opensource

and you want to know how much, or maybe you simply want to know how long you have been working on something today. For either cases, I made this little script for linux, that you must launch at startup (put it in your startup apps list, or launch it manually). It will then record the time passed since you turned on your computer, and subtract the time your desktop was in screensaver mode, resulting in the time you were actually sitting doing something with the computer.

Of course it wont help you to know how long you have been working and how long you spent staring at facebook. But there are much better time-logging apps available on the net to solve that problem...

The script will store the current activity time in a ".activitytime" file inside your home folder, so you can just do "cat ~/.activitytime" from a terminal or from any other script (launcher, panel widget, etc...) to display your current activity time.

#!/usr/bin/pythonimport sys,os,timer = os.system("xprintidle")if r != 0:    print "Error: xprintidle was not found, and must be installed for this program to run"    sys.exit()total_idle = 0def uptime():    "returns uptime in minutes"    with open("/proc/uptime", "r") as f:        uptime_seconds = float(f.readline().split()[0])        return int(uptime_seconds)/60    return 0def idletime():    "returns idle time in minutes"    global total_idle    r = os.popen("xprintidle")    idle_minutes = int(r.read())/60000    if idle_minutes > 1:        total_idle += 1    return total_idle    def formattime(minutes):    "formats atime in minutes to HH:MM"    hours = minutes/60    restminutes = minutes%60    return str(hours).zfill(2)+":"+str(restminutes).zfill(2)    def writetime():    "writes current activity time to a file"    strtime = formattime(uptime() - idletime())    print ("active time: "+strtime)    fil = open(os.path.expanduser("~") + os.sep + ".activitytime","wb")    fil.write(str(strtime))    fil.close()    def readtime():    "reads a temp file and adjusts elapsed idle"    global total_idle    fpath = os.path.expanduser("~") + os.sep + ".activitytime"    if os.path.exists(fpath):        fil = open(fpath,"r")        r = fil.read()        fil.close()        t = r.split(":")        minutes = int(t[0])*60 + int(t[1])        print "logged activity time: ",formattime(minutes)        print "current uptime: ",formattime(uptime())        total_idle = uptime() - minutes        print "logged idle time: ",formattime(total_idle)if __name__ == "__main__":    if len(sys.argv) == 1:        # if no argument is given, start from zero        writetime()    else:        # with an argument, for ex --append, restart from currently saved time        readtime()    while True:        time.sleep(60)        writetime()
by Yorik on 17.03.2013 in linux , opensource