Paste this into Bash:

get_screen_time() {
since=${1:-today}
until_opt=${2:+--until "$2"}

journalctl --output json -u systemd-logind --since "$since" $until_opt | \
jq -r 'select(.MESSAGE_ID and .__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP) |
if (.MESSAGE | test("Lid opened|Starting systemd-logind|Operation .suspend. finished")) then
  .__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP + " start"
elif (.MESSAGE | test("Lid closed|Stopping systemd-logind|system will suspend")) then
  .__REALTIME_TIMESTAMP + " stop"
else
  empty
end' | \
awk -v current_time=$(date +%s%6N) '
{
    if ($2 == "start") {
        last_start = $1
    } else if ($2 == "stop" && last_start != 0) {
        total += ($1 - last_start) / 1000000
        last_start = 0
    }
}
END {
    if (last_start != 0) {
        total += (current_time - last_start) / 1000000
    }
    seconds = int(total)
    hours = int(seconds/3600)
    minutes = int((seconds%3600)/60)
    printf "%02d:%02d", hours, minutes
}'
}
PS1='$(get_screen_time) '$PS1

Now you have screen time for today in your prompt:

00:21 user@asus:~/Documents$ 
00:21 user@asus:~/Documents$ cd ../Pictures/
00:21 user@asus:~/Pictures$

Cool?

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[+] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] [S] 2 points 10 months ago

    Accumulative duration of working sessions. Work session is a period of time limited by any of “start” events and any of “end” events. E.g between “system started” and “suspend on”, or between “lid opened” and “system turn off”. Type of events determined by regex. Effectively it’s a screen time for most of people.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    that will help to make the terminal slower!

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Interesting, I'd complete it with KDE Connect to add mobile usage.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    I don’t know about android, but on iPhone only way to export screen time data is to screenshot it. Probably android is also restrictive.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    No idea on iOS, specifically left the OS due to its lack of interoperability.

    On Android I did test but https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.atharok.screentime/ or https://f-droid.org/en/packages/godau.fynn.usagedirect/ looks like good candidate. I'm not sure if they have export or publish to API functions but I image at this point would be relatively easy to add.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 10 months ago

    You know better, I never have had an Android, but some time ago I've tried searching if you can get screen time data older than 2 months and came to conclusion you can't do it on Android either. But probably it's not an issue if you can automate export and perform it regularly.

    It would've been cool to have accumulative screen time across all devices. But as iOS user I don't dream of it.

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  • [–] -4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (22 children)

    Relies on Systemd.

    Edit: try uptime. Or, Linux only, /proc/uptime.

    Editedit: uptime is for uptime. For last login is last -n1 or "logged in since " is last -s <time>.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    Only Linux distros. Which is, why i mentioned it. uptimelast works on BSD's and not-Systemd's too.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Uptime shows how long the system has been up, not how long one has been interacting with the system.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

    Oh, right, my bad. But fret not there's last -n1 for that.

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  • [–] 4 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Yawn. Oh no youre using a different init than I would have preferred 🥺🥺🥺😣😭

    This is what I picture everytime someone complains about systemd.

    Systemd is great and at this point y'all just like being contrarian.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

    Stop complaining. I just mentioned the requirement because you didn't.

    There's a whole cross-compatible command called uptimelast, you know?

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