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    SubjectRe: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0
    Hi!

    > Imagine for a moment that we solve time-warp somehow. Any other
    > problems?
    >
    > Well, a user-level daemon have to process a lot of data just to detect user
    > interaction. Considering that the trackpad bandwidth is nearly 5KB/sec,
    > probably would be better to leave my panel alone... :-/

    Ok, so we may want to introduce something like "tell me if some data
    came from last time"... Actually, 5KB/sec is pretty much okay, and you
    probably could get around actually reading that data.

    When you know user is moving the touchpad, you could just sleep for 5
    seconds (assuming user activity) and only then start monitoring it
    again?

    > I'd really like to get "is user idle" solved, but it really should not be in
    > kernel unless it _has_ to. And time-warp probably causes problems not only
    > for your daemon.
    >
    > IMHO signal the user-space is a kernel duty and no user-space daemon will ever
    > make it better. There are plenty of PM daemons out there, but Linux still lacks

    Well, I do not think your kernel code is mergeable. But bits to enable
    similar functionality in userspace probably would be mergeable.

    Pavel
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