Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: dbus-idle
Version: 2025.5.1
Summary: System idle time using DBus
Home-page: https://github.com/bkbilly/dbus_idle
Author-email: Alexander Frenzel <alex@relatedworks.com>, bkbilly <bkbilly@hotmail.com>
Project-URL: Source Code, https://github.com/bkbilly/dbus_idle
Keywords: dbus_idle,dbus-idle
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License
Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent
Requires-Python: >=3.7.0
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: LICENSE
Requires-Dist: jeepney (>=0.9.0) ; platform_system != "Windows"
Requires-Dist: pywin32 (>=221) ; platform_system == "Windows"

# dbus-idle

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Python library to detect user idle time in milliseconds or inactivity on Linux and Windows.


## Requirements

* Python 3.7 or later


## Installation

Install using:
```
sudo apt install meson libdbus-glib-1-dev patchelf
pip install dbus-idle
```


## Usage

You can use this module from the command line
```bash
dbus-idle
```
or access the current idle time from within your python program
```python
from dbus_idle import IdleMonitor

milliseconds = IdleMonitor().get_dbus_idle()
```

## Contribution
This is based on the work by [Alexander Frenzel](https://github.com/escaped/dbus_idle)
