Mouse-Stay-Up

This lightweight application is designed to prevent your computer from entering sleep mode by periodically moving the cursor when it detects periods of inactivity. Additionally, the program allows you to disable the keyboard programmatically (MacOS only).

Installation from source

Prepare Build Environment (macOS)

For macOS systems, the installation of build essential tools and development libraries is not needed.

Prepare Build Environment (Debian-Based Linux)

To build the application on Debian-based Linux systems, follow these steps to install the necessary dependencies:

1. Install Build Essential Tools: Install the essential tools required for building software on Debian-based systems:

   sudo apt install build-essential

2. Install Development Libraries:

   • libx11-dev: Install the development files for the X11 library, which is required for graphical applications:

     sudo apt install libx11-dev

   • libayatana-appindicator3-dev: Install the development files for the Ayatana AppIndicator library, which is used for creating application indicators:

     sudo apt install libayatana-appindicator3-dev

Build the Application

1. Verify that you have Go 1.22+ installed

   $ go version

   If go is not installed, follow instructions on the Go website.

2. Clone this repository

   $ git clone https://github.com/sonjek/mouse-stay-up
   $ cd mouse-stay-up

3. Build

   $ make build

   The binary file is built and ready to run from current folder:

   $ ./bin/mouse-stay-up
   

4. You can install the binary file to your OS.

   Installs to /usr/local/bin/ by default:

   $ make install
   

   Install to a different location:

   $ make install INSTALL_PATH=/tmp
   

All available makefile actions:

% make
Usage:  make COMMAND

Commands:
  help        Display this help
  get-deps    Download application dependencies
  build       Build application
  clean       Remove binary file from local bin directory
  install     Install binary file from local bin directory to /usr/local/bin/
  uninstall   Remove binary file from /usr/local/bin/
  start       Build and start application
  test        Run unit tests
  format      Fix code format issues
  deadcode    Run deadcode tool for find unreachable functions
  audit       Quality checks