[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 105638] How to retrieve user idletime value with Wayland? Is there something similar to xprintidle?

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105638

--- Comment #2 from DanglingPointerException at gmail.com ---
(In reply to Pekka Paalanen from comment #1)
> I'm not aware of any Wayland protocol extension for this, and I'm not sure
> it belongs in Wayland either, because you could as well be working in a
> virtual terminal text mode, on Xorg, or any other system. You could also be
> actively using input devices bypassing the display server, in which case the
> display would not know the user is active - I suspect joysticks might fall
> into that category.
> 
> I think systemd-logind might maintain idle time information if it is told
> about user activity.
> 
> This is not to say there cannot be a Wayland extension for it. There could,
> if there is someone to put the good effort into it, and other people agree
> it's a good idea.
> 
> 
> Why is this a bug report? Is this a feature request?
> 
> If you only had a question, please use the Wayland mailing list and close
> this report as not a bug.
> 
> The design discussion for a such feature cannot be had in a Bugzilla.

Well xprintidle works because of X which Wayland is replacing; thus the easy
assumption that Wayland will provide similar functionality.

X idletime if I'm not mistaken is purely for the active desktop environment and
not some virtual text terminal unless of course it is a bash window on the
current desktop.

Apologies if this the wrong place to ask the question.  I'll try the mailing
list.  Due note though that I would suspect that there are tens of thousands if
not millions of linux desktop instances out there that use xprintidle in
scripts.

Thanks for the time responding!

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