On Nov 30, 2007, at 2:12 PM, Stockly, Ed wrote:

> Is there a shell command that will return how much time has passed  
> since the
> last time a user moved or clicked the mouse or hit a key on the  
> keyboard?
>
> ES
>


A little Google-fu led me to this charm.

ioreg -n IOPower -l |grep -i idle

It gives idles for various devices.  They seem to be in order of last  
use but that might not always be the case.  Time is expressed in 10^-9  
seconds!  They claim it works in panther.  I know it works in leopard.

-Mark
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