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This is not an issue, just a thank you #1

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benmoussatMouad opened this issue Aug 24, 2023 · 6 comments
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This is not an issue, just a thank you #1

benmoussatMouad opened this issue Aug 24, 2023 · 6 comments

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@benmoussatMouad
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I couldn't find your contacts on github to thank you, so I'm reaching out here.

You don't know how much you've helped me, I've struggled to make ActivityWatcher work on GNOME.

Thanks.

@2e3s
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2e3s commented Sep 12, 2023

Thank you, I'm happy that it works on Gnome right away, because I didn't test it much on Gnome.

There's a way to know Git email on Github if it's not obfuscated

Take any commit URL on Github, e.g. 38a2f1f and add .patch to that URL.

@pesader
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pesader commented Oct 30, 2023

Yeah, I share the sentiment! I could never get Activity Watch working on my own, while awatcher just worked.

Thanks a lot!

@cameronj86
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cameronj86 commented Nov 4, 2023

Thanks a lot for the watcher.

As a new Linux user, can someone please elaborate on the difference between this and the stock activity watcher?

I haven't experienced any issues w/ the original unlike others (running Debian - KDE & X11) so I'm wondering if this is just an alternative version more likely to work, but perhaps there's a tighter integration w/ Linux that I'm overlooking (ie: not having to create my own rules for Dolphin, System Settings, plasmashell, konsole etc).

@2e3s
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2e3s commented Nov 5, 2023

@cameronj86 The primary "feature" is working on Wayland which has been the default environment for some years already, while X11 getting gradually phased out. The stock activity watcher is X11-only, this one works with most of Linux distributions.
Otherwise, the only feature is the app/title rewrites for sensitive content or annoying unwarranted changes of window titles. Actually, I wanted to propose this into the server instead of client-side later.
If the stock watcher doesn't adapt soon, after some work I wanted to propose to rewrite it using the code from this watcher.

ie: not having to create my own rules for Dolphin, System Settings, plasmashell, konsole etc

If I understand you correctly, you don't have to create any rules. It's only for sensitive content or eye candy/convenience.

@cameronj86
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Thanks for the clarification. I've been dragging my feet on resolving some Nvidia/Wayland issues, but w/ Wayland increasingly becoming the default, I'll tackle that and then double back to awatcher in a week or two.

Yesterday was my aw 'install day', so things are slowly coming into focus. You were also correct in your initial post that I was confusing aw-watcher capabilities w/ category export files. I'll skim the internet fo aw-category-export files to streamline my categorization moving forward. Thanks again for breaking things down.

@alexander-newton
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+1 Thank you!

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