$175 Bounty: Fix Linux Idle Detection in BOINC (C++)

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This is a bug bounty for the fix of this issue in the BOINC repo:
BOINC/boinc#1187

BOINC does not correctly detect the "idle" state of Linux machines under some conditions. This bounty will be paid out to the first person who solves this with a patch that is integrated into the BOINC Github repo/accepted by the BOINC devs. Bounty payments happen in accordance with the BountySource terms.

Requirements to claim bounty:

• Submit code to BOINC repo and have it approved by maintainers, following all coding standards used by the repo and making any style and other edits requested by them. In the event that your code is not accepted by maintainers but otherwise meets bounty requirements and solves the issue the bounty is for, the bounty will still be paid out. We work closely with the maintainers and have every reason to believe they would accept a well made pull request.
• The fix should enable BOINC to correctly detect idle in the latest versions (regular and LTS) of Ubuntu. In this way, it must detect idle for both x and wayland. Since BOINC runs as an unprivileged account, it cannot detect X or Wayland status. For this reason, a separate "helper" app is proposed to run under user account and report idle status to BOINC via BOINC's RPC which will need to be extended to support the helper app.
• Important: We have been alerted that some devs are having trouble withdrawing funds from BountySource. All future bounty increases will be paid out by us directly, we cannot guarantee that BountySource will release any funds currently stuck there.

Current Bounty Amount: $175 + whatever is in above crypto addresses

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[makeasnek]

Bounty increased to $150