Slack-Away is a Bash script that automatically sets your active/away status in Slack.
By default, Slack-Away will set your status to Away on Slack if you are idle (no mouse or keyboard activity) for 10 minutes or more. Otherwise, you will be set to Active.
- Bash (
apt-get install bash) - Curl (
apt-get install curl) - xprintidle (
apt-get install xprintidle)
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Install dependencies.
apt-get install bash apt-get install curl apt-get install xprintidle -
Clone this repository.
git clone git@github.com:yonas/slack-away.git cd slack-away -
Create a Slack test token at https://api.slack.com/docs/oauth-test-tokens
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Edit the
slack-away-botfile.
- a) [required] Replace
<SLACK_TOKEN_HERE>with your Slack test token from step 2. - b) [optional] Edit the
idle_timeout_minutesvariable to change the idle timeout. The default is 10 minutes.
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Mark the files as executable.
chmod 755 slack-away-bot chmod 755 slack-away-launcher -
Setup cron to run
slack-away-launcherevery minute.Run the crontab editor:
crontab -eand add the following:
* * * * * /path/to/slack-away/slack-away-launcher > /dev/null 2>&1Make sure to replace
/path/to/slack-awaywith the actual path to where you clonedslack-awayin step 1.