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how to check how many minutes have passed since the user is idle?

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http://serverfault.com – I want to write a script that will show how many minutes the user is idle. Since the last touch of the keyboard and mouse. Example: #!/bin/bash while true do command_lines... ... sleep 60 echo $var done Result: The computer/user is idle for 1 minute. The computer/user is idle for 2 minute. ... The computer/user is idle for 5 minute. ... Can we do that? It can be in Bash, Python, etc. (HowTos)

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Submitted by u85500 on 08/25/2012

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ATOP - MyServer 2013/01/07 00:03:57 10 seconds elapsed PRC | sys 2.18s | user 8.33s | #proc 141 | #zombie 0 | #exit 0 | CPU | sys 21% | user 139% | irq 0% | idle 228% | wait 11% | cpu | sys 5% | user 40% | irq 0% | idle 51% | cpu002 w 3% | cpu | sys 5% | user 35% | irq 0% | idle 56

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From the help docs, idle time:

Displays the number of minutes that have elapsed since the last keyboard or mouse input from a session.

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