
qmousetracker.py
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An app for investigating where your mouse pointer spends its time all day...
An interval time between timeouts is specified.
At each timeout a pixel will be drawn at an image with the position of the mouse pointer.
The image can be viewed and saved at any time.
NOTE: You must have pyqt (see http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/)
installed on your computer in order to run this program.
16 years ago
0.1 to 0.2:
Added option for screenshot.
Added option for autosave.
Added options for setting the colors.
16 years ago
0.1 to 0.2:
Added option for screenshot.
Added option for autosave.
Added options for setting the colors.
GavrocheLeGnou
16 years ago
another great functionnality would be to register clicks only.
I think it would be much fun to see where we click the most
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fornwall
16 years ago
Unfortunately, that is much harder to do as X does not allow multiple clients to register for receiving ButtonPress events on a Window.
So why one easily can write a key logger for X, a mouse click logger is more problematic.
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Ekardnam
16 years ago
Weee, I love apps like this! :D
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kibos
16 years ago
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fornwall
16 years ago
I have added autosave and screenshot capabilities in the 0.2 version.
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davidp
16 years ago
The logging of the mouse position is also very cool.
Keep improving it.
Sorry for my english.
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Ekardnam
16 years ago
Well great app! I hvae to try it ^^
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navindra
16 years ago
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SynTruth
16 years ago
I could see something like this being used to study user desktop behaviors. If you know how the desktop is set up, you can see where they spend most of their time clicking for Menus, Icons, etc.
Actually, if this also took a screenshot of the root window, with panels/kickers/etc it could be even more useful.
I'd also like seeing stats like "How often does the mouse sit idle when the user is doing something (aka, not when the screensaver is on.)
Just me, but I find it interesting. :D
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Lenz
16 years ago
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