Capture Workspace

What are you doing all day?

This is a simple script to take a screenshot and record the active application.

It takes a screenshot, and writes the current application name and title to a JSON file. Here's an example:

{
    "cmd": "/usr/lib/gnome-terminal/gnome-terminal-server",
    "date": "2017-02-14 17:50:01-05:00",
    "window_name": "kale:~/dev/rc/capture-workspace"
}

Set it to a cron job!

*/5 * * * * DISPLAY=:0.0 ~/bin/capture-workspace

Setting the DISPLAY variable is necessary as the cron job is run in a different environment.

Dependencies

This depends on scrot(1), jq(1), and xdotool(1).

On Debian derivatives (like Ubuntu), they are in packages of the same names:

$ sudo apt install scrot jq xdotool