Afk timer change won't take effect

[Ranson03d]

By default afk timer is 3min.
Per instruction from this post

Disable or prolong afk-watcher

Hi , First of all i would like to thank the developers for their awesome work. i had this problem where i was watching youtube or any other movie and the watcher thought i was afk and didn’t count my time , i know its common and i personally think the best solution to it is the manual tracking like suggested by kerv but for a temporary solution i tried the following with no luck : 1- disable the afk watcher , well that works but the activity tab doesn’t count anything now , only the timeline …

we can set the timer in
C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\activitywatch\activitywatch\aw-watcher-afk\aw-watcher-afk.toml

I set it to 10min, but afk still triggers at 3min!
It’s not taking effect. Please advise a workaround!

[brayo]

You should restart the afk watcher after setting the new timeout. Or just restart your PC.

[Ranson03d]

I actually found out that I didn’t uncomment the line in the toml file!
To anyone who had this issue, you have to delete the # sign in front of the line you are changing in the toml file.