How to detect desktop idle time from an Electron app?

Question

I need my Electron app to respond to the user becoming idle (no mouse or keyboard inputs to any program on the OS) for a certain amount of time.

How can I trigger a func

Answer 1

You can always detect idle times on Linux by using XScreenServer, GetLastInputInfo on Windows and CGEventSourceSecondsSinceLastEventType on Mac

I've published desktop-idle using these API's, you can check the source code https://github.com/bithavoc/node-desktop-idle

UPDATE:

Electron 3 users can use the power monitor API to achieve the same goal: https://electronjs.org/docs/api/power-monitor