Tk_GetUserInactiveTime(3)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so welcome to the Tk_GetUserInactiveTime(3) page from the Tk Library Procedures manual — it's literally the “how long has the user been idle” page, and it's iconic ✨

• Tk_GetUserInactiveTime, Tk_ResetUserInactiveTime — discover user inactivity time.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the whole signature situation is giving:

#include <tk.h>

long
Tk_GetUserInactiveTime(display)

Tk_ResetUserInactiveTime(display)

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• Display *display (in) — the display whose user-inactivity timer you're querying or resetting. That's the whole parameter, bestie 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

Tk_GetUserInactiveTime returns the number of milliseconds that have ticked by since the last user interaction — usually via keyboard or mouse — with the respective display. On systems and displays that do not support querying the user inactivity time, -1 is returned. That's the “nope, can't query this” fallback, fr fr.

Tk_ResetUserInactiveTime resets the user inactivity timer of the given display to zero. Periodt. On windowing systems that do not support multiple displays, display can be passed as NULL.

🏷️ KEYWORDS 🏷️

idle, inactive — that's the tag squad 💖

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tiny sign-off, bestie: this cutie is from Tk 8.5 and the Tk_GetUserInactiveTime(3) manual page — mwah 💅✨