Idle, locks, and meetings

Idle timeout

If you don’t touch the keyboard, mouse, or trackpad for a while, Vetroscope stops counting active time until you’re back. The threshold is Settings → Activity Tracking → Idle timeout — 5 minutes by default, and 5 minutes is the minimum.

While you’re idle:

• Active tracking pauses — no app time accumulates.
• Passive tracking continues — music and background media are still recorded.

Meetings and calls

Talking isn’t typing. When you’re on a call — Zoom, Discord, FaceTime, and similar — Vetroscope can tell you’re present even though your hands are off the keyboard, and keeps counting the time. A meeting where you only listen and speak won’t show up as a hole in your day.

Locked screen

Locking your screen stops everything: no active time, no passive media, nothing. The same applies when the machine sleeps.

When idle detection gets it wrong

Sometimes you were present but not touching the computer — reviewing a cut, reading on paper next to a reference. If the same app borders both sides of an idle gap, you can right-click the gap on the Timeline and choose Dispute idle time to fill it. There’s a matching tool for the opposite mistake — Dispute time block removes a short false blip, like a laptop waking overnight. Both are covered in the Timeline.