simactivity

Simulate user activity by moving the mouse pointer back and forth a bit whenever the user has been idle for a specified amount of time.

Successfully tested with

• macOS (macOS 10.12 (Sierra) and later required)
  • macOS Sonoma 14.3 (Apple silicon)
• Linux (X11)
  • Kali Linux in UTM VM
• Windows
  • Windows 11

Build

Prerequisites

macOS

• Command Line Tools for Xcode
• CMake

Windows

• Build Tools for Visual Studio
• Git and CMake:

  winget install Git.Git
  winget install Kitware.CMake
  

Linux

• CMake
• C++ compiler, e.g. g++
• X11 libs

Compile

macOS / Linux

git clone https://github.com/607011/simactivity.git
cd simactivity
mkdir -p build && cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
cmake --build .

Windows

Open Visual Studio Developer Console.

git clone https://github.com/607011/simactivity.git
cd simactivity
md build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build . --config Release

Run

macOS / Linux

./iamhere

Windows

iamhere.exe