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Finding Idle Time in OS X (Cocoa or Carbon)
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Steve Sell
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May 24, 2001, 12:44 PM
 
Does anyone know how to find out how long a user has been idle in OS X (similar to what the screen saver does)? I can't find any API to let me do this. Any clues would be greatly appreciated.

-Steve
     
howardm4
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May 28, 2001, 04:29 PM
 
ut_time from the utmp structure.

man utmp
     
   
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