[Psi-devel] Idle detection

Maciek Niedzielski machekku at uaznia.net
Tue May 2 06:31:03 PDT 2006


Mircea Bardac napisał(a):
> Hi everybody,
> 
> During some work yesterday (mainly editing text) I've noticed Psi being set to 
> Away even though I knew I didn't change my status from Online. Moving the 
> mouse changed the status to Online again.
> 
> AFAIR, idle = no keyboard && no mouse activity
> 
> I have successfully reproduced this behaviour (Psi detecting idle even though 
> I was typing) using a 1 minute idle detection time. 

Psi uses xscreensaver to detect idle state. And I've heard recently that 
it detects idle basing on focus changes...
Also someone said that gnome has a replacement for xscreensaver that 
does a good job detecting idle.
But - since I'm not linux user - I couldn't check any of these.

-- 
Maciek


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