desktop idle

Node/Electron module to detect idle desktop users (macOS, Windows, Linux, FreeBSD and OpenBSD).

Stable | Actively maintained | Pull Requests Welcome

Forked and inspired from node-system-idle-time

Installation

npm install --save desktop-idle
# or yarn
yarn add desktop-idle

Cross-Platform Support

• Windows: GetLastInputInfo, see src/win/idle.cc.
• Mac(OSX): CoreGraphics Event Source, see src/mac/idle.cc.
• Linux & FreeBSD & OpenBSD: X Screensaver, see src/linux/idle.cc.

Usage

var desktopIdle = require('desktop-idle');
console.log(desktopIdle.getIdleTime());

Linux Requirements

X server development package and pkg-config are required:

apt install libxss-dev pkg-config

Test

yarn test

License

MIT - Bithavoc<im@bithavoc.io>