Zeitgeist Framework

Is it possible to have a simple log file ?

Asked by taiebot65

Hello i was looking to see if conky/donky could display my last activities via the zeitgeist engine like the gnome-system-viewer do. By using the the command tail -f /var/log/daemon.log i use to display some events in conky but those are useless for a user like me. So i was hoping that the zeitgest-engine would provide me more useful events to record . So i think a log file containing the last 4 days of activity would be a great addition. I would like to see a log file of all the events recently done on my computer like that i could see if someone as used my computer when i was away..etc....

Thanks for your work

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Siegfried Gevatter (rainct) said : 		#1

Hi,

You can access the events logged in Zeitgeist over D-Bus or using our Python API.

See http://zeitgeist-project.com/docs/0.3.2 for a reference on how to use them.

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taiebot65 (taiebot65) said : 		#2

waouh!!! that was a quick answer. The problem i am not a developper and dbus is a little bit hard.

Me i would just like a command to type to display my last six activities...

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Best Siegfried Gevatter (rainct) said : 		#3

Here you have an example script http://eurion.net/zeitgeist/lastactivities.py . Place it somewhere, make it executable and then you can run it as "./lastactivities.py 6" to get a representation of the last six events.

Feel free to ask in #zeitgeist (IRC channel on irc.freenode.net) in case you need help customizing the script to your needs.

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taiebot65 (taiebot65) said : 		#4

Thanks Siegfried Gevatter, that solved my question.