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  • Wayland - How Best to Log My Own Desktop Activities

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  • It's funny you say that. I was thinking exactly the same thing about your comments.

    I've asked for help, you posted a chatgpt response, and now you've claimed eleventy times that I seem like I don't know where to start or don't seem like the type to search things.

    "OP should've googled it first" is one of the hallmarks of toxic communities.

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  • Thanks for these suggestions.

    I think xdotool kinda does "gnome magic" including simulating key presses to gnome.

    It looks like ydotool and dotool only simulate key presses to gnome, which can't achieve my aims.

    I couldn't figure out how to install wlrctl, but other attempts with other avenues have led me to believe that anything that starts with wlr is wlroots and gnome doesn't implement those endpoints of the wayland api.

    grim also doesn't work with debian / gnome / mutter / wayland it appears.

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  • I had a play around with this. Thanks for the suggestion.

    It seems to use pipewire to capture the desktop. I can't get pipewire to watch more than one monitor at a time. On this basis it's a non-starter unfortunately. Screen cap tools can get the entire desktop.

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  • Wow. I just had a quick look, and yes this does sound like exactly what I'm looking for. Just trying to install now but I'll give it a go. Thanks.

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  • No worries, your comments make you sound insufferable.

  • Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

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  • I feel like you must have slipped through a rift in the time / space continuum and are visiting us from another reality.

    The first step would be to educate people with anarchist literature.

    In 2025, we're completely unable to expect "people" at large to engage in any kind of reasoning.

    You can't just propose to "educate people with anarchist literature" like that's some kind of solution.

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  • This might shock you but... I have actually spent some time looking into this.

    The tools you've suggested aren't compatible with Wayland. It seems that alternatives don't really exist, or cause the problems I mentioned in my post.

    Additionally, I have a few decades experience with Linux and while I'm not some amazing Linux guru I do know what a bash script is and how to "link two programs together".

    Finally, like everyone on the planet I also know what chatgpt is and might even consider using it to create a bash script if I knew what tools were compatible with Wayland.

  • How old are you (roughly) and how long does it take you to recover from illnesses and injuries compared to when you were younger?

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  • Physical exercise doesn't make your body more effective at fighting viruses. That's covid-era anti-vax meme level reasoning.

  • Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

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  • How do you propose to do that given the current slide into fascism?

  • Wayland - How Best to Log My Own Desktop Activities

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  • I'm using a default debian / gnome setup, so that's mutter + wayland.

    Grim seems to error with compositor doesn't support wlr-screencopy-unstable-v1 which I don't really understand. Searching that term suggests that gnome will never support wlr-anything.

  • Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says

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  • Well yeah any potential solution is going to mean reduced potential profit, which you could describe as degrowth, but that would be the worst possible way to describe it.

    The reason why we haven't gotten anywhere with carbon reduction is because wealthy people block any efforts.

    Telling them that degrowth is the solution is unlikely to motivate them.

  • Buckle Up, the Smart Glasses Backlash Is Coming

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  • Yeah, well.

    It's the functional equivalent of walking around recording video of everything on your phone.

    Even if you're not actually recording anything, if there's no way for me to know that I'm just going to treat you like you are.

  • How old are you (roughly) and how long does it take you to recover from illnesses and injuries compared to when you were younger?

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  • I don't think you really get significantly less effective at fighting off viral infections until you get really old and start collecting co-morbidities.

    If you're more "active" as in socialising more, you'll catch more viruses.

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  • Yeah there's a video on the upstream project page that shows how it works. It's notreally "AI" so much as OCR. Like if you search "wayland" it will show you the times at which that word was visible on the screen.

    I don't think it accepts a "prompt" like "make a list of activities for me".

    I did have a quick look at how they're doing it. It's just a different python lib.

    I did however discover, from looking at this project, that the sound and animation from taking a screenshot originates from gnome, not the thing taking the screen shot. There's some notes in this project explaining how to disable that.

    With this in mind, other screenshot apps like flameshot will be fine.

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  • Kinda cool, interesting. Thanks for the suggestion.

    It's not really suitable for me though. This kinda takes periodic screenshots and makes them searchable.

    I need to know what I was doing at different times. So really it's just the periodic screenshots that I need and the search functionality isn't useful to me.

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  • Most time tracker apps

    That's not what I asked for.

    use a paper calendar and write on it.

    You don't really understand time tracking, I see.

    But text log of the active window and a screencap, that's the stuff of Microsoft Recall AI nightmares

    How is logging the title of the active window an AI nightmare ?

    the stuff of Microsoft Recall AI nightmares that Linux developers wouldn't be keen to implement

    Like this you mean? Yes, surely that doesn't exist.

    Maybe you need to actually learn to be punctual and write down your activities

    Maybe you need to try being... a bit less of a dick ?

    buy a Snapdragon laptop with Windows AI on it

    Kinda speechless at this one. Well done.

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  • Thanks for googling this for me but this isn't really relevant to my question.

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  • emacs can periodally log the focussed window title ?

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  • Maybe ask chatgpt whether xdotool is compatible with wayland.

    I get that you're trying to help but, this is not the way.