Free idle software for linux

dlq lets modem/isdn users download files, without disrupting normal traffic, by using idle bandwidth.

Users enqueue files to grab, and a daemon retrieves file bits whenever the line is idle for a few moments (~30 seconds), pausing whenever other traffic resumes.

dlq project is written in perl ans supports triggers.

Diald manages network links over PPP. It can also be used to manage and/or monitor any network interface.
Diald sets up a "proxy" device which stands in for the physical connection to a remote site. It then monitors the proxy, waiting for packets to arrive. When interesting packets arrive it
will attempt to establish the physical link to the remote site using either SLIP or PPP, and if it succeeds it will forward traffic from the proxy to the physical link. As well, diald will monitor traffic once the physical link is up, and when it has determined that the link is idle, the remote connection is terminated. The criteria for bringing the link up and taking it down are configurable at run time, and are based upon the type of traffic passing over the connection.
Enhancements:
- Use openpty to get a pseudo terminal if it is available.
- Added Makefile rule to build RPMs.
- Changed to use GNU autoconf.
- Added config save/restore to dctrl. Patch from someone but I forget who. If it was you please tell me!
- Handle dynamic changes of netmask.
- Fix check for first packet between firewall.c and filter.c
- Only compile TCP_CORK code if TCP_CORK is defined.

Pidgin, previously known as Gaim, is a multi-protocol instant messaging client for Linux, BSD, MacOS X, and Windows. Pidgin messenger is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, SILC, Gadu-Gadu, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks.
Pidgin users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on AOL Instant Messenger, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.
Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification. It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features.
A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more.
Pidgin runs on a number of platforms, including Windows, Linux, and Qtopia (Sharp Zaurus and iPaq).
Pidgin integrates well with GNOME 2 and KDE 3.1s system tray, as well as Windowss own system tray. This allows you to work with Pidgin without requiring the buddy list window to be up at all times.
Pidgin is under constant development, and releases are usually frequent. The latest news regarding Pidgin can be found on the news page.
Enhancements:
- libpurple:
- Core changes to allow UIs to use second-granularity for scheduling. Pidgin and Finch, which use the glib event loop, were changed to use g_timeout_add_seconds() on glib >= 2.14 when possible. This allows glib to better group our longer timers to increase power efficiency. (Arjan van de Ven with Intel Corporation)
- No longer linkifies screennames containing @ signs in join/part notifications in chats
- With the HTML logger, images in conversations are now saved. NOTE: Saved images are not yet displayed when loading logs.
- Added support for QIP logs to the Log Reader plugin (Michael Shkutkov)
Pidgin:
- Ensure only one copy of Pidgin is running with a given configuration directory. The net effect of this is that trying to start Pidgin a second time will raise the buddy list. (Gabriel Schulhof)
- Undo capability in the conversation window
- The formatting toolbar has been reorganized to be more concise.
- A new status area has been added to the top of conversations to provide additional detail about the buddy, including buddy icon, protocol and status message.
- Show idle times in the buddy list as days, hours, seconds
Finch:
- Theres support for workspaces now (details in the manpage)
- Theres a new custom window manager, Irssi
- Some improvements for tab-completion, tooltip and the password entries
- Some bugs regarding search results fixed
- A new DBus-script to create a docklet for finch
- Support for showing empty groups in the buddy list (Eric Polino)

GnoTime provides a to-do list organizer and project timer.
GnoTime is a to-do list tracker and project timer with a built-in invoice generator. It allows users to keep track of how much time they have spent working on particular tasks, maintain a diary of that work, and create invoices with task-specific billing fees and rates.
Main features:
- Multiple To-Do Lists that can be sorted by the priority/importance of the tasks in the list. The to-do items can be organized into categories, arranged in a hierarchical way. This makes it easy to maintain both business and personal items in the list, or handle many different projects, while keeping them separate from each other.
- A pair of Diary/Journal areas that can be used to keep long and detailed notes and diary entries. The project description area allows a multi-paragraph description or status to be typed in. The diary area allows day-to-day notes to be associated with a set of timestamps, so that one has a record of what one did on any given day.
- A Running Timer, with time totals, for each project/task. One starts the timer by clicking on a task: it will measure the amount of time that you are in front of the computer. If it detects that the keyboard/mouse are idle, it will stop the clock. If the clock stays stopped too long, it will nag you to start it up again. You can view time totals by day, week, month or year.
- A Billing Status dialog for each diary entry. You can mark any given diary entry as bill-able/non-bill-able, paid or pending, and set the billing rate. Each project can also be marked up with a set of project-planning information: planed start, end and due dates, hours to finish, percent-complete. This is in addition to assigning an urgency/importance to each project, as well as a status (completed/in-progress not-started/canceled).
- A half-dozen different HTML Reports that can slice and dice your lists. Theres a Journal report that shows all of the diary entries for one given project. Theres an Invoice report that summarizes the time spent on each entry, and computes a dollar amount for it. Theres a Status Report that prints the title of each project, together with the paragraph-long descriptions of each. Theres a ToDo report, which prints only the project title, the importance/urgency, and the completed/in-progress/not-started status. The Daily report summarizes the total time spent on a day-by-day basis, and lists each of the projects that were worked on in a given day. Each of these reports can be customized. And, because theyre HTML, you can even publish them as web pages. (Yes, Ive thought of using GnoTime as a weblog management/publishing tool).
Enhancements:
- Build against QOF version 0.6.0, if available.
- Fix issue where yelp doesnt display an entry for gnotime when browsing because it doesnt recognize the entry
- Fix sourceforge bug [ 799077 ] projects blanked when first time user tries to sort
- fix broken leap-year calculation, leading to bugs sourceforge bugs [ 983408 ] and [ 1114205 ]
- Fix crash due to hoverhelp timer popping after a report window is closed.
- Change activity report to display date/time in two distinct html table columns (prettier alignment)
- Bug fix: sourceforge bug report fixed [ 877193 ] toolbar wont go to/stay in text-only mode
- Bug fix: editing time brings up wrong report
- fedora .spec file is out of date and rpm cannot build rpm
- Fix bug involving copy of old gnotime files to a new machine on which gnotime has never been run before.
- Fix sourceforge bug [ 1276458 ] "Empty" appears in diary entry
- Apply sourceforge patch 1176719 Extensible fix for gtkhtml3 building
- Apply 1171394 Adds separate timeout for "No Project" dialog
- Apply sourceforge patch 085911 Add "-" value for status field
- Apply sourceforge patch 074658 Add wordwrapping to diary entry boxes
- Apply sourceforge patch 1074458 Fix a crash when invoking help
- Apply sourceforge patch 1038701 Fix to Activity item in popup menu
- Apply sourceforge patch 1027582 Build system update for qof inclusion
- Fix idle time so that it works with Linux 2.6 kernel /proc/interrupts
- use %e to see the estimated sizing of a project in the logfiles
- Apply new pt_BR translation from Goedson Teixeira Paixao
- Fix for Debian Bug #250776, change widget visibility in the edit interval dialog

MyClient is an open source web client interface for the MySQL database.
MyClient is a simple MySQL web client interface. Largely it is a web-ified version of the "MySQL" command-line query interface with the added benefit of multiple connection interfaces.
It does not contain a lot of bells and whistles like some other MySQL administrative oriented programs such as the very good phpMyAdmin. The target audience of MyClient are those who want a fast, simple web based MySQL query interface and/or those who dont want or need the helper tools provided by a full bore administrative package.
MyClient is ideally suited for those who have web sites that are virtually hosted and they only have access to their database(s), not the entire MySQL database server. Its also ideal for those who have SSH access to their server, but because of an idle timeout frequently get disconnected.
This was one of the primary reason this application was originally developed. MyClient allows you to quickly and easily connect and rule your little corner of the MySQL universe.
Main features:
- Runs with PHP Register Globals OFF.
- Validates as XHTML Strict Compliant.
- Validates as CSS Compliant.
- CSS control of display layout.
- Session support so you may leave MyClient and return without having to login again.
- Multiple (with a default of 5) SQL query interface windows. Each interface stores its query window contents in session so you can switch between interfaces without losing your current work.
- Ability to save and load queries. These queries can either be saved on the server, downloaded or e-mailed to multiple recipients.
- One click query result sorting by simply clicking on the column name.
- One button table describe and indexing information.
- One button database switching functionality.
- Ability to save query results. These results can either be saved on the server, downloaded or e-mailed to multiple recipients.
- Fully localized to allow all displaying in the language of your choice. Currently MyClient includes English, German and Spanish language files.
Enhancements:
- Saving queries or query results via download resulted in the interface HTML being appended after the data.
- This update fixes this issue.

PIKT project is a cross-categorical, multi-purpose toolkit to monitor and configure computer systems, organize system security, format documents, assist command-line work, and perform other common systems administration tasks.
PIKTs primary purpose is to report and fix problems, and secondarily to assist with configuration management, but its flexibility and extendibility evoke many other uses limited only by your imagination.
One reviewer said of PIKT, "this is by far one of the most interesting/powerful tools I have seen for Linux administration." Another wrote that PIKT "excels at handling a diverse collection of machines, saves time and eliminates repetition, and gives you a global view of your site."
PIKT has been compared favorably to commercial software costing hundreds of thousands of dollars. Yet PIKT is free!
Main features:
- Reporting a Problem (wtmp shrinkage)
- Fixing a Problem (kill idle user sessions)
- Reporting and Fixing a Problem (remove junk files)
- Scanning a Log File (sulog scan)
- Configuring a System (resolv.conf, etc.)
- Auto-Configuring a File (auto-updating sudoers)
- Managing System Security (checksum differences, etc.)
- Formatting a Document (web page publishing)
- Scheduling a Process (centrally managed job scheduler)
- Assisting the Command Line (remote command execution)
Enhancements:
- The PIKT Reference was substantially revised, adding many more examples (especially function usage), expanding on several sections, and updating it to reflect details of recent software versions.

printerpowerd project is a Daemon to automatically turn a printer on and off.

printerpowerd is a little Python script designed for users of older printers who want to save power when not using their printer, without manually turning it on and off.

It runs, checking the printer queue directory every five seconds, turns it on when it sees a job, and turns it off after a configurable amount of idle time.

It allows you to turn a printer on and off (when idle) using X10 or any other abitrary command.