DesktopMeter collects usage stats for your Linux desktop.

• Checkout from github git clone http://github.com/jyro2080/DesktopMeter.git DesktopMeter

• Start the background daemon cd DesktopMeter/src python dmeterd &

• Continue your regular work

• When you want to check the stats cd DesktopMeter/src ./dmeter

• DesktopMeter currently consists of a background daemon dmeterd and a command line utility dmeter to view the stats.
• dmeterd is a python script which sleeps most of the time, but wakes at specified intervals (30sec by default) and checks what application window is currently active. It uses some external X commands for this job (xprop). It can also detect if there was not keyboard activity in the interval elapsed. It logs this information in a sqlite database (stored at $HOME/.dmeterdb)
• dmeter CLI, reads the information logged by daemon in database and calculates various stats for the current day.

unicorn: ~/source/DesktopMeter/src $ ./dmeter 
Today's Top app usage (for 16 hours)
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       google-chrome    45 %
                gvim    37 %
            Terminal     8 %
            git-cola     2 %
                xchm     1 %
              okular     1 %
         xfce4-panel     0 %
           quodlibet     0 %

Active factor: 
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40.77 %