clock_window

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

require 'neatjson'
@hash = {}
begin
  loop do
    sleep 15
    x = `xprop -id $(xprop -root 32x '\t$0' _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW | cut -f 2) _NET_WM_NAME`
    x = x.match(/.*\"(.*)\"\n\z/)[1][0..60]
    @hash[x] = @hash[x].to_f + 0.25
  end
ensure
  @hash = {"*---------- WINDOW NAME ----------*" => "minutes"}.merge(@hash)
  File.open("timelog.json","w") do |f|
    f.write(JSON.neat_generate(@hash,aligned:true,around_colon:1))
  end
end

Clock Window script

A minimalist script to keep track of how long each window is active. Measured in quarter minutes. Hash builds until you kill the script with CTRL-C at which point it writes out the log file. This script adds no extra CPU load will not raise the CPUs temperature indicating minimal CPU usage.

The output will look quite nice in any text editor aligned by the colon separator.

Linux compatible. Maybe Mac???

Output looks like:

{
  "*---------- WINDOW NAME ----------*"                           : "minutes",
  "Pandora Internet Radio - Listen to Free Music You'll Love - C" : 0.5,
  "MetaRuby - Ruby Forum - Chromium"                              : 0.25,
  "New Tab - Chromium"                                            : 0.5,
  "Ruby Weekly Issue 296: May 5, 2016 - Chromium"                 : 0.5 
}

Installation

Save clock_window file in your executable path.

gem install neatjson
chmod +x clock_window

To execute just run ./clock_window . If you put this script in your executable path then the timelog.json file should appear in whatever folder you run it from.

Contributing

This script is now a gem and we're looking for people to help this be a cross OS compatible script. https://github.com/danielpclark/clock_window

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Daniel P. Clark

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