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

Some people have written node libraries that hook into the native platform code for OSX, Windows, and Linux to accomplish this.

I ended up using this library to accomplish the same thing in my electron app: https://github.com/paulcbetts/node-system-idle-time

It's published on npm as @paulcbetts/system-idle-time

I tested it on OSX and it seemed to work fine there.

I did originally get a "module version mismatch expected 50 got 46" error, but running this command cleared it up:

npm rebuild --runtime=electron --target=1.4.3 --disturl=https://atom.io/download/atom-shell --abi=49

Replace target with whatever version of electron you're using.