A plain simple screen time tracker for linux written in Rust.
It tracks the time that your screen was unlocked.
The tool was created as the other solutions available e.g. activity watch are too sophisticated for my usecase.
Use the time-tracker cli tool to show the total active times per day.
When started without arguments the tool will show the last seven days.
$ time-tracker -h
USAGE:
time-tracker [OPTIONS]
OPTIONS:
-h, --help Print help information
-n, --number <NUMBER> The number of dates that should be printed [default: 7]
-s, --start <START> The start of the printed range [default: -7]
-v, --verbose Print all breaks
-V, --version Print version information
Sample output:
$ time-tracker -s -5
Mon, 28-Feb-2022 - start: 08:07 - end: 17:51 - total: 09:00 - break: 00:43
Tue, 1-Mar-2022 - start: 08:35 - end: 18:34 - total: 07:48 - break: 02:10
Wed, 2-Mar-2022 - start: 08:08 - end: 18:56 - total: 09:10 - break: 01:38
Thu, 3-Mar-2022 - start: 07:59 - end: 19:56 - total: 09:49 - break: 02:07
Fri, 4-Mar-2022 - start: 08:43 - total: 03:33 - break: 00:45
On debian systems you can use the provided .deb package and install it using apt.
apt install ./time-tracker_0.1.0_amd64.deb
Please note that you either have to log out and in again to make the daemon autostart or start the daemon in background for the current session with:
time-tracker-daemon &
Install Rust if not already done:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
Start a new terminal or source your .bashrc to load the rust environment:
source ~/.bashrc
Install prerequisits:
sudo apt install libgtk2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libdbus-1-dev
Build the project:
cargo build --release
Install the cargo-deb tool:
cargo install cargo-deb
Build the package:
cargo deb -p package
There is a daemon (time-tracker-daemon) running in the background that writes the active screen times to ~/.config/
Check if the daemon is running and if it throws any error messages:
ps aux | grep time-tracker-daemon
Check if the daemon is writing to the config files:
ls -la ~/.config/time-tracker/