Oli Glaser wrote:

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

Or even JScript/VBScript. Sending keystrokes from a script is a standard
task.

Gerhard
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