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Logging active window for time tracking purposes

Logging active window for time tracking purposes

Post by stew » Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:39:09



Can anyone point me in the right direction for resources to monitor
'active windows' in X? I am hoping I can log when windows get and lose
focus, to aid in time tracking. KDE seems to have something like this, but
I could not get it to log anything other than the fact that focus changed.

Is this a standard XFree86 feature? Is there some configuration or logging
setting that will record window titles? I am most interested in term and
xemacs windows, which might also be able to have document names in the
title bar.

I would have thought this would already be addressed, but I have spent an
hour or so on google, and have not found anything useful (mostly just
focus policy stuff).
TIA

Sean

 
 
 
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1. XFree86 Window focus log for time tracking?

Hello,
        Does anyone have pointers on how I can track window focus in XFree86? I
would like to track my window focus activity (ideally with gnome-terminal
dynamic titles, and somehow xemacs filenames...). My goal is to get a bit
more information for my time logs. Any help would be greatly appreciated,
even suggestions on a better way to systematically track what I am working
on.

I am running Redhat 8 (will be switching to 9 real soon now). I've done some
upgrades, so I'm running
XFree86: 4.2.99.901
Kernel: 2.4.20-2.48
xscreensaver: 4.07-2
gnome-desktop: 2.2.0.1-3

I've seen something in KDE which sounded right. It was a log file for any
focus change. Either I did not understand it correctly, or was missing
some functionality, because I could not get window names in the log.

I am guessing XFree86 could track window focus. If not then perhaps gnome
(or, if necessary, kde). Perhaps even xscreensaver (though I'm truly
reaching there).
TIA

Sean

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