idle meter -- was Re: Any solutions for "won't sleep" problem?

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On 2005-08-28 Peter Renzland wrote:

Is there a way to check the idle-timer that Energy-Saver uses? "pmset -g" shows the trigger limits, but how can we see the current values to debug this problem?

I found it: http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040330161158532

#!/bin/sh
# Original Author: Drew Thaler of Multisolar
echo $((`ioreg -c IOHIDSystem | sed -e '/HIDIdleTime/ \
!{ d' -e 't' -e '}' -e 's/.* = //g' -e 'q'` / 1000000000))

-- Peter