Gnome extension on KDE?
I know the title sounds a little strange but hear me out. The time tracking software I use for work doesn’t work on Wayland, unless I’m using Gnome as my DE. They have an extension that allows it to work in this case. Personally, I don’t enjoy Gnome on my desktop (I use it on my laptop). Is there a way for me to get the functionality that this extension provides on KDE so that I can use Wayland on my desktop as well?
Time tracking software:
- hubstaff.com/
- support.hubstaff.com/screensho…
Linux install script:
- codeberg.org/governorkeagan/hu…
EDIT: I have included more files in the codeberg repo. I hope this helps.
Screenshot capture support for Wayland - Linux - Hubstaff Support
Currently, Wayland doesn't support screenshot capture with usual apps, like Hubstaff for example. Learn more about this here.Kelvin Diaz (Hubstaff Support)
This entry was edited (9 months ago)
boredsquirrel
in reply to governorkeagan • • •Looks useful. So this software detects how long you spend on what app?
This may be compositor dependent but just a guess. Thats a problem of Wayland (currently)
The port will be huge and just making the extension run not enough.
governorkeagan
in reply to boredsquirrel • • •Pretty much. My company has it set to track the following:
All of this is combined to determine how active you were (as a percentage), you can then try and determine how much time was spent on productive vs non-productive work. However, we use it as a glorified timesheet.
sun_is_ra
in reply to governorkeagan • • •governorkeagan
in reply to sun_is_ra • • •boredsquirrel
in reply to governorkeagan • • •I dont think they actually take screenshots, do they? That would be awfully inefficient. You can get the window titles in better ways.
the URL stuff should use a browser extension to tell them that name.
If that app really takes screenshots and extracts URLs from them, it is pretty overcomplex. But that improves platform-independence a lot
governorkeagan
in reply to boredsquirrel • • •jcarax
in reply to governorkeagan • • •pinchcramp
in reply to governorkeagan • • •Skull giver
in reply to boredsquirrel • • •Skull giver
in reply to governorkeagan • • •Sam Black
in reply to governorkeagan • • •The GNOME extension appears to get the currently focused window information (ie name, title, PID and executable name) and make this information available over DBUS for the client binary.
The client binary calls
gnome-screenshot -f
and I assume gives a path that the client binary then sends to Hubstaff servers.A janky suggestion would be to create a Kwin Script that pulls the active window information, sends it (somehow) to a DBUS service that can provide it to the client binary and create a wrapper script around
spectacle
to pretend to begnome-screenshot
(egspectacle -b -f $@
)I don't know if this would work fully though as the client binary strings seem to hint it checks the running version of GNOME Shell, and without an account I can't see if this is a hard requirement or a "Hey, this is broken, we'll try our best!" type thing.