[PyQt] OT: System idle time

[Hans-Peter Jansen]

On Friday 17 September 2010, 12:41:49 Hugo Léveillé wrote:
> Hey
>
> A little OT here but I am sure one of you filks got the answer. Under
> linux, what is the python command to get the system idle time. By idle
> time, I mean mouse move or keyboard pressed. I got it for windows and
> OSX but not Linux

Only a few distributions ship a package called xidle, but for a general 
solution, you might need to call into the Xlib yourself with ctypes - not 
that easy but doable.

man 3 XScreenSaver

Pete