System Idle Time

Targets macOS
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Hi! Does anyone have a plugin-free solution to get OS X (Cocoa) system idle time?

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This shell command returns idle time in seconds. You could use a Shell class and extract it from results.

/usr/sbin/ioreg -c IOHIDSystem | /usr/bin/perl -ane 'if (/Idle/) {$idle=int((pop @F)/1000000000); print $idle,"\ "; last}'

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I’d have a peek in MacOSLib as well

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[code]Function SecondsSinceLastInput() As Double
Declare Function CGEventSourceSecondsSinceLastEventType Lib “ApplicationServices” ( stateID As UInt32, eventType As UInt32 ) As Double
Const kCGEventSourceStateCombinedSessionState = 0
Const kCGAnyInputEventType = -1

Return CGEventSourceSecondsSinceLastEventType( kCGEventSourceStateCombinedSessionState, kCGAnyInputEventType )
End Function[/code]

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Thanks everyone! I think I’ll go with Joe’s solution, just what I needed.