README

What is xprintidle-ng?

Web page

xprintidle-ng is a utility that queries the X server for the user's idle time and prints it in milliseconds (or with a custom format string).

Installation

Basically, type ./configure && make && sudo make install to compile and install the program. If you are compiling from the git repository, you must run ./bootstrap beforehand.

Dependencies

Build requirements

The following common executables must be available to build xprintidle-ng:

• cat, sed, tr, grep, mkdir, find
• git, wget, perl, gzip, sha1sum
• bash, gcc, make

These executables are less common and are also required:

• autoconf, automake, autopoint, autoreconf, autom4te, libtoolize
• pkg-config, m4, gettext et al.
• help2man, makeinfo

Runtime requirements

The following libraries must be available to run xprintidle-ng:

• libxss (also known as libXScrnSaver or similar)
• libXext
• libX11

Here is a short summary of packages required on various systems

System	Packages
Debian	libxss-dev
Arch Linux	libxss
Gentoo	x11-base/xorg-server
NixOS	xlibs.libX11, xlibs.libXScrnSaver, xlibs.libXext

Contribute

Translations

If you want to submit a translation for this project, here are the steps:

1. Install all relevant dependencies
2. Fork this repository on GitHub
3. git clone http://github.com/<USERNAME>/xprintidle-ng && cd xprintidle-ng
4. ./bootstrap && ./configure && make
5. The template file will be in po/xprintidle-ng.pot
6. Based on the template file, write your po file, e.g.: la.po for Latin
7. Put la.po in the po folder in the repository
8. git add po/la.po
9. git commit -a -m "Added Latin translation" && git push
10. Open a pull request against this repository

You can also translate doc/xprintidle-ng.texi; put these translations in an appropriately named file, e.g.: doc/xprintidle-ng.la.texi.

Languages translated so far:

• English