antzucaro / jitter

Keep your computer alive for a fixed amount of time by jittering the mouse

Jitter

Keep your computer alive for a specified amount of time by jittering the mouse.

Why?

There are many like it but this one is mine. I was bored on a Saturday during quarantine, okay? Also, my wife's Zoom client refuses to identify itself with respect to the Linux power management APIs.

Usage

Fine tune the total duration with the -hours and -mins arguments, and change how frequently within that duration you'd like to jitter the mouse with the -freq argument. By default it'll keep the computer alive for an hour and jitter the mouse every minute of that hour.

Usage of jitter:
  -freq int
  	move the mouse every N seconds (default 60)
  -hours int
  	hours (default 1)
  -mins int
  	mins (default -1)

So, to jitter the mouse every 5 seconds for an hour, this will suffice:

./jitter -freq 5

Author

Ant Zucaro AKA Antibody AKA dfdashh in various places on the internets.