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harryi3t / update-slack-status-on-lock-events
Created January 10, 2017 10:59
set the slack status as away on screen lock and back to active on screen unlock
#/bin/bash
TOKEN='put your token here. Get a new from https://api.slack.com/docs/oauth-test-tokens'
dbus-monitor --session type='signal',interface='com.canonical.Unity.Session' | while true
do
read x
if echo "$x" | grep -q Locked; then
echo "set yourself away at $(date)"
curl -X GET -H "Cache-Control: no-cache" "https://slack.com/api/users.setPresence?token=$TOKEN&presence=away"