Arbtt

The Automatic Rule-Based Time Tracker Arbtt is a desktop daemon that runs in the background and, every minute, records what windows are open on your desktop, what their titles are, which one is active and on which workspace you are.

Note: Please be aware that Arbtt may track sensitive data. It is not possible to specify which data Arbtt should track, you can only filter it after everything has been recorded.

Start deamon manually

In Terminal type :

(arbtt-capture &)

Start automatically after login

(Session restart required)

In Terminal type :

cp /usr/share/doc/arbtt/examples/arbtt-capture.desktop ~/.config/autostart/

read statistics

After Starting Arbtt the first time you can create a minimal configuration file with the following command:

printf "{\n\$idle > 60 ==> tag inactive,\n tag Desktop:\$desktop,\n tag Program:\$current.program\n}" > ~/.arbtt/categorize.cfg

Note: This configuration file does not specify what actions are recorded. Instead it configures how the recorded data ist tagged and displyed using the program arbtt-stats.