profesto

Measures and visualizes computer productivity on Linux

About the app

STATUS = functionally complete

'Profesto' is what I got from Google Translate when I translated 'workday' to Latin.

Performance is not ideal. Due to the nature of matplotlib and the timeouts I have to use to sync the program, there is stutter during data collection. Please allow a few seconds between every (and I do mean every) interaction with the program.

Dependencies

python3-xlib
psutil
matplotlib (only version 3.0.3)
pysimplegui

Installation for dependencies

This will depend on your system. I use Fedora Linux.

dnf install python3-xlib
pip3 install psutil
pip3 install matplotlib==3.0.3
pip3 install pysimplegui

Running the program

Due to the nature of the keyboard reader, you cannot run the program as a regular user. You must use sudo. As such, I cannot provide a Bash script to easily execute the program. In addition, because this is Python, there is no executable.

sudo nohup python3 app/main.py &

You are free to close the terminal window afterwards.

To close the program, close the window or click the Exit button.

Data gathered

Keyboard data > reading the file /dev/eventX, where X is the keyboard device number
Mouse position > xlib
Current active window > xprop and regex
Computer system data > psutil and platform

Other programs

PySimpleGUI for the GUI