Comment 411 for bug 532633

In terms of mouse heat map maybe we could get people to use the rather funky java based app "IOGraph" which tracks mouse movement and depicts it graphically.

http://iographica.com/

I just downloaded it and ran it from the command line:-

alan@wopr:~/Desktop$ java -version
java version "1.6.0_18"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.8pre) (6b18~pre3-0ubuntu1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 16.0-b13, mixed mode)
alan@wopr:~/Desktop$ java -jar IOGraph.jar

A window pops up in which there is a 'record' button. Press that, minimise the window (if you can hit the minimise button without the world ending) and you're set. Leave it running for an extended period and try to forget it's there. No cheating now!

As an example attached is a woefully short image of my use over the last 8 minutes since I discovered the application. I was using google chrome to read news mail and do a bit of tweeting. I have attached one image with my desktop behind it and one without. The one with doesn't do well because I have a big fat black terminal which makes it hard to see the lines. Hence attaching both.

Perhaps (if Mark is in agreement) we could have a bunch of Ubuntu community members run this for a day (or whatever their typical computer usage pattern is) and submit their own images ?