real-or-random / aw-watcher-gnome

A DBus-based ActivityWatch watcher for GNOME. It allows you to use ActivityWatch on GNOME under Wayland.

Prerequisites

You need the following in order to use this watcher:

• Install and set up ActivityWatch
• Install the Focused Window DBus shell extension

Installation

I currently do not provide pre-built binaries, so you'll need to compile the project from source. You need to have poetry installed.

1. poetry install
2. poetry run pyinstaller --clean aw-watcher-gnome.spec
3. Copy the dist/aw-watcher-gnome directory to your ActivityWatch directory.
4. In the ActivityWatch config directory, open aw-qt/aw-qt.toml
5. In autostart_modules, replace "aw-server", "aw-watcher-afk" with "aw-watcher-gnome" (if the lines in the file are commented out, uncomment them)
6. Restart aw-qt