I toggle Jiggler on and off somewhat frequently. It would be really nice if you could configure a shortcut in preferences for it.

Is it possible to launch Jiggler with Timed Quit automatically activated and set to X hours?

I launched the application and I see the jiggler process running in Activity Monitor, but I don't see it show up in the menu bar at all.

Do you know if Jiggler works on the latest OS?

macOS 10.15.6

This is really not an important issue. I just wanted to raise it, because it might be an indicator for something else.

1.7

1.8

Jiggler doesn't work with MacOS Mojave.

... it'd be awesome if a Preferences option was added to allow selection of icon location, such as Top Left, Top, Top Right, Left, Centre (Default), Right, Bottom Left, Bottom, Bottom Right.

There might even be a benefit in an option to allow the icon to be dragged around and placed manually (either from preferences only, or if requiring a click of the icon to cancel the active jiggle).

Jiggler asks for Accessibility to be on each time Mac starts. Even though it is already on. I do not know if this is Jiggler problem or current Mac os, but no other apps are asking the same question when mac starts.

What kind of info needed to fix it?

I'd love to see a feature that automatically disables Jiggler after certain conditions are met. Here are some ideas:

• After time has passed (8 hrs)
• Outside of set hours (work day)
• After sleep

I realize this isn't being actively developed, but I still wanted to log this idea somewhere in hopes that someone else could see it and get excited enough to do it. 😉

Hi,

the current menu bar icon is photo-realistic and thus not very Mac-like.

Please add a simplified menu bar icon, e. g.

• a stylized wave resembling Jiggler's icon
• a mouse pointer in motion

In an advanced version the icon could even depend on settings or be functional, e. g.

• countdown the seconds until the next jiggle
• indicate the type of jiggle (click or move)

Note: The current photo-realistic icon is already functional 👍 in the sense that it greys out when Jiggler is not active.

Hello, hopefully this is the right place?
After I downloaded it from CNET and opened the dmg, I dragged the application into the application folder and ejected the disk. I tried to open it from there. It prompted me to change the accessibility to allow cursor access. After I did that, I opened Jiggler again from the applications. However there was no response. The dock area also do not show the Jiggler icon. I tried again but this time I clicked on the dmg file and clicked on the application from the disk directly. Again there was no response. However this time when I try to eject the disk, it prompts me that the software is still in use so the disk cannot be ejected. So seems like it should be running but there is just no sign at all, no window displayed etc.
Please kindly enlighten me as to how to solve this issue.

Thanks!

Edit: Sorry. Seems like there is just no window? It will automatically turn on when the mouse is not moving for a certain time? I have another question. Since it also does not show the icon in the dock area, what happens if I want to close it and see the screensaver? Thanks again! Please tell me if there is any misunderstanding.

I had an important VM open which logs out automatically after 20 minutes of inactivity. In the past I've set up Jiggler in click mode for every 5 minutes and it works great. Today, I did the same, I enabled Jiggler and put the mouse over the VM as usual. I came back an hour later and it was all logged out. Turns out, the Jiggler icon was underneath where I left the mouse icon, and thus because my mouse was clicking the Jiggler icon in the middle of the screen, my VM was not receiving any clicks in the background and thus it logged me out.

Any chance you could set Jiggler so that the icon does not show up underneath where the mouse is?

Add a scheduler that whitelists / blacklists when Jiggler can / can't jiggle.

While a little messy, a blacklisting solution is to provide a checkbox with the label "Do not run Jiggler during these times" and have an array of time ranges for specific days of the week (e.g. "Saturday all day" or "Wednesday from 5:00PM to 11:59PM").

Alternatively, a whitelisting solution could be to provide a similar checkbox with the label "Only jiggle during these times" and have the same array of ranges for specific days (e.g. "Monday 9:00AM to 5:00PM").

Either of these solutions would allow Jiggler to run as it does today when they are not checked, but would not jiggle during some times when they are.

Just did the update today to 10.14.6 (18G103) and installed Jiggler 1.8 but no jiggles :-(

Tried a lot of different options, uninstall, remove accessability permissions and reenable etc. When I set to 5s jiggle I see nothing. My mac also sleeps so looks like the system calls are also not working?

Let me know if you need any debug info.

Right now, the mouse can jiggle itself into a sleep corner or away to some place a click should not occur. Can we add a feature where the jiggle remembers the mouse's starting coordinates so that it can giggle randomly, but return to its starting position, preventing a random migration across the screen?

Now the M1 chip is being used in the new Macs, it would be great to support
this.

Thanks for this excellent tool! I noticed that Jiggler is also active when the machine is locked. It would be nice to add an option to pause jiggler while this is the case.

With Jiggler 1.7, the application goes to the status bar, but the menu does not appear when clicking on the icon, making it impossible to disable it or adjusting the options.

I'm using OS X 10.11.5 and Jiggler installed with brew.

I love using this app and would love to see some type of notification system built in.

My usecase is I want to trigger some home automation once my laptop goes idle. For example, if my laptop is idle after x minutes (i'm obviously not in the room or stepped away). I would have automation trigger the lights off.

Perhaps a MQTT message/notification would get fired off and my automation can tap into that topic?

Add an option to not jiggle if the front-most browser tab/application window is playing a video.

Please add a fourth kind of jiggle: A (customizable) key click.

Reason:
When working with remote machines the first two jiggles do not work reliably for me, e. g. the idle time is only reset on the local machine but not the remote machine.
The mouse click jiggle works. But of course it clicks "somewhere" and I always have to remember to position the pointer in a safe position. So Jiggler is not launch-and-forget.

Something like F2 should work. But maybe others have other ideas about effective and harmless key clicks.

Add a new option which is a combination of Standard jiggle and Click jiggle. Currently they are separate options.

Recently upgraded from 1.8 to 1.9 on 10.14.6 and when starting it up it shows the error message:

"You can’t use this version of the application “Jiggler.app” with this version of macOS."
"You have macOS 10.14.6. The application requires macOS 10.15 or later."

Is that on purpose or by accident?

I have clicked the checkbox beside Jiggler.app in Security & Privacy > Privacy but whenever I try to start Jiggler it asks me to "Turn on accessibility" again.

This is Jiggler 1.8

Thoughts?

I want to enable Jiggler so that my VMWare Horizon Client remote connection doesn't automatically switch off after about 15 minutes of idle. Is there a way I can activate Jiggler but then somehow have the Mac screen turn off? I'm using a Macbook Pro in clamshell mode with an external mini Displayport monitor.

Crashes multiple times a day, produces a spinning wheel on the icon and requires a force quit. There is no particular activity that cause it, just another case of user attempted to use program in the manner program was meant to be used. I'll see if I can dump a stack trace, hopefully symbols were included in the binary.

just a request if i could ask

i need this program to deal with a vimo bug that zooms the screen in, if it could jiggle every second this would be amazin

I've used Jiggler for a long time now and its great. At the new place I am working at the VPN disconnects when my mac is inactive for a very short period of time (even just a few minutes). I am trying to use Jiggler to prevent this however it seems that small amounts of mouse jiggling don't seem to keep the connection alive, (including when I jiggle the mouse manually), however large amounts of jiggling seems to do the trick.

I'm not sure how difficult it would be but having a slider in the preferences similar to the one used for setting the interval between jiggles would be great for a 'jiggle amount' setting which would allow users to increase or decrease the amount the mouse cursor is moved (and potentially another for how long the mouse is moved for).

Does this sound possible?