On 11/02/2011 22:40, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> John van der Putte wrote:
>
>> At work they disabled the possibility to turn off the screensaver. I
>> use a small program which "presses" every 59 second the shift-key. No
>> extra hardware needed. The program is called caffe1ne. It works very
>> well. The only problem is that when I'm making a selection in excel
>> (or every other program) the pressing of shift undo my selection.
> Wow... I understand forced security measures, to a point, but forced
> screen savers... isn't there a phrase in the constitution of your
> country against "cruel and unusual punishment" or so? :)
>
> Anyway, if the "volume up/down" "keys" prevent the screen saver, they
> would be better than shift (that is, with fewer side effects). If you
> can get the source code of caffe1ne, the change should be small. This
> also can be scripted with all kinds of script languages... no USB
> gimmick necessary.
>

I was thinking along those lines too - either altering caffeine (I'm=20
surprised they did not include an option for selecting the key press) or=20
throwing together a quick app in VS, QT or something.

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