Time Tracker

A plain simple screen time tracker for linux written in Rust.

It tracks the time that your screen was unlocked.

The tool was created as the other solutions available e.g. activity watch are too sophisticated for my usecase.

Usage

Use the time-tracker cli tool to show the total active times per day.

When started without arguments the tool will show the last seven days.

$ time-tracker -h
USAGE:
    time-tracker [OPTIONS]

OPTIONS:
    -h, --help               Print help information
    -n, --number <NUMBER>    The number of dates that should be printed [default: 7]
    -s, --start <START>      The start of the printed range [default: -7]
    -v, --verbose            Print all breaks
    -V, --version            Print version information

Sample output:

$ time-tracker -s -5
Mon, 28-Feb-2022 - start: 08:07 - end: 17:51 - total: 09:00 - break: 00:43
Tue,  1-Mar-2022 - start: 08:35 - end: 18:34 - total: 07:48 - break: 02:10
Wed,  2-Mar-2022 - start: 08:08 - end: 18:56 - total: 09:10 - break: 01:38
Thu,  3-Mar-2022 - start: 07:59 - end: 19:56 - total: 09:49 - break: 02:07
Fri,  4-Mar-2022 - start: 08:43 - total: 03:33 - break: 00:45

Install

On debian systems you can use the provided .deb package and install it using apt.

apt install ./time-tracker_0.1.0_amd64.deb

Please note that you either have to log out and in again to make the daemon autostart or start the daemon in background for the current session with:

time-tracker-daemon &

Build Project

Install Rust if not already done:

curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh

Start a new terminal or source your .bashrc to load the rust environment:

source ~/.bashrc

Install prerequisits:

sudo apt install libgtk2.0-dev libgtk-3-dev libdbus-1-dev

Build the project:

cargo build --release

Build Debian Package

Install the cargo-deb tool:

cargo install cargo-deb

Build the package:

cargo deb -p package

Troubleshooting

There is a daemon (time-tracker-daemon) running in the background that writes the active screen times to ~/.config/

Check if the daemon is running and if it throws any error messages:

ps aux | grep time-tracker-daemon

Check if the daemon is writing to the config files:

ls -la ~/.config/time-tracker/

TobiasSchaffner / TimeTracker