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Always AFK - crash of aw-wather thread

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Description

- [x] I am on the [latest](https://github.com/ActivityWatch/activitywatch/releases/latest) ActivityWatch version.
- [ ] I have searched the issues of this repo and believe that this is not a duplicate.

installed 0.13.2 via AUR - Arch - but web interface reports 0.13.1

- **Manjaro testing**:
- **ActivityWatch 0.13.1**:

should be 0.13.2 though - see above

## Describe the bug

activity is not registered - always shows AFK

## Additional context

seems to be python version 3.13.1 does not support mouse listener. second computer with python 3.12.7 works fine.

error log:

```
2024-12-26 15:58:58 [ERROR]: Unhandled exception in listener callback (pynput.mouse.Listener:233)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pynput/_util/__init__.py", line 229, in inner
return f(self, *args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/lib/python3.13/site-packages/pynput/_util/xorg.py", line 470, in _handler
self._handle(self._display_stop, event)
~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
TypeError: '_thread._ThreadHandle' object is not callable
```

EDIT: here some background:

https://github.com/moses-palmer/pynput/issues/614

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Research direction

Reproduce the AFK failure on Python 3.13.1 and compare it with the working Python 3.12.7 setup on Manjaro/Arch. Start with the pynput.mouse.Listener traceback and the upstream pynput issue 614; done means mouse activity is registered without the callback error and the web interface no longer remains AFK.

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Assessment

Tech stack
python
Domain
desktop, operating-systems
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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