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antidrift/internal/evidence/x11.go
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felixm 682eb603fa fix(evidence): X11 sensor polls so tab/title changes are tracked
The X11 source only re-read the active window on _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW
changes, so switching a browser tab — which changes the window title
but not the active window — was invisible. All the time on the new tab
was credited to the stale title (e.g. reading a Consume article showed
up as time on the Keel tab).

Mirror the Windows sensor: poll the active window every 750ms and emit
only when the window or its title changes. A shared, display-free
pollLoop carries the change-dedup and is unit-tested for the exact
regression (a title-only change must emit).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-06-05 20:32:24 -04:00

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//go:build linux
package evidence
import (
"context"
"time"
"github.com/jezek/xgbutil"
"github.com/jezek/xgbutil/ewmh"
"github.com/jezek/xgbutil/icccm"
)
// pollInterval is how often the X11 sensor samples the active window. ~1s
// latency on a switch is immaterial for a focus tracker, and polling is what
// catches a title change inside the same window — e.g. switching a browser tab,
// which changes the title but not the active window, so an _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW
// event subscription would miss it and credit the stale title. Mirrors the
// Windows sensor's polling cadence.
const pollInterval = 750 * time.Millisecond
// NewSource returns the real X11 active-window sensor.
func NewSource() Source { return &x11Source{} }
type x11Source struct{}
// Watch opens one long-lived X connection and samples the active window every
// pollInterval, emitting a snapshot whenever the active window OR its title
// changes. Any failure degrades to an Unavailable snapshot; it never panics the
// daemon.
func (s *x11Source) Watch(ctx context.Context, onChange func(WindowSnapshot)) {
X, err := xgbutil.NewConn()
if err != nil {
onChange(unavailable("cannot connect to X server: " + err.Error()))
<-ctx.Done()
return
}
defer X.Conn().Close()
pollLoop(ctx, pollInterval, func() WindowSnapshot { return snapshot(X) }, onChange)
}
// snapshot reads the current active window's title and class. A missing active
// window (or read error) yields an Unavailable snapshot.
func snapshot(X *xgbutil.XUtil) WindowSnapshot {
active, err := ewmh.ActiveWindowGet(X)
if err != nil || active == 0 {
return unavailable("no active window")
}
title, err := ewmh.WmNameGet(X, active)
if err != nil || title == "" {
// Fall back to ICCCM WM_NAME.
if t, e := icccm.WmNameGet(X, active); e == nil {
title = t
}
}
var class string
if wmClass, err := icccm.WmClassGet(X, active); err == nil && wmClass != nil {
class = wmClass.Class
}
return WindowSnapshot{
Title: title,
Class: class,
Health: EvidenceHealth{Available: true},
}
}