thejoefin / caffeinated

☕️ Prevent your Windows PC from sleeping. Port of Caffeine for OS X. Upgraded with modern Windows 10 APIs.

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caffeinated's Issues

Update flag to truly prevent sleep instead of just the screensaver

birdsoaf@57c016f

EXE File may be left behind in the startup folder. Need to clear out

With the new auto startup logic there needs to be a check to make sure there is not an EXE left abandoned in the startup folder.

Create Stand alone EXE for GitHub release

• Need to make startup code smart to check if packaged or not. Use same method as Text Grab.

Automatic mode to prevent sleep as long as a process with a given name is running.

"Add an automatic mode, that prevents sleep as long as a process with a given name is running. The names can be configured, one line per process, named as in the task manager (case sensitive)."
from @easimon fork

Add editor config file

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/create-portable-custom-editor-options?view=vs-2019

Publish it as AOT?

Hi! I found your comment on the AOT discussion page and came here to see your advancements in publishing trimmed WinForms app.

Unfortunately, I was unable to make your repo working right away. Debug cannot start, immediately throw an exception somewhere in settings. Published app does not start, just nothing happen. Does it actually work? Were you able to publish it as AOT?

My app has similar setup with tray icon and just two child forms, "settings" and "about", right as yours. and I nearly gave up with AOT WinForms, despite of Net 8 promises.

bring back more duration options

I know that reducing the number of duration options was one of the first changes you made in d5f91b5, but would you consider bringing some of them back?

Particularly in light of now working from home due to COVID, I find myself wanting to keep the machine awake for the duration of the workday, since my home office is a secure environment, and I feel comfortable leaving the screen unlocked all day. So for that, the 5 hour option covered much of the day. A more advanced option would be to make it user-configurable, but that would require quite a lot more work.

Enabling startup at login does not enable Caffeinated in Task Manager

When checking the box "Automatically launch at Windows startup" the option is not changed in Task Manager right away.

Add a license to project

Check out: https://choosealicense.com/

Reach out to Desmond Brand and see if he has an opinion.

Add setting for keeping system on but allowing monitor to turn off

from @mosoto fork

This enhancement could be merged in to this repository

Target .NET 5

Adaptive icon does not change after theme switch

Switching themes will not update the caffeinated icon until you right click it, go to settings and then close them. Until then it will stay the previous color scheme.

This breaks a bit if the theme is changed automatically at night for example. I assume it might be possible to either detect the change or periodically check it but not sure if the latter wouldn't waste resources on something that happens fairly rarely.

System Information

• Windows: 10.0.19043 Build 19043 (Insider Stable)
• Caffeinated: 1.5.0.0

Thanks for this app! It's really super useful

‘Automatically launch on Windows startup’ is not working

Apparently, a ‘regular’ app packed and installed via store can't be executed by a traditional shortcut, so the ‘Automatically launch on Windows startup’ option is not working when the app is installed from the store.

Where is installed and how to uninstall it

First thing first I don't know what caused some weird problems on my windows, I cannot even be sure if the fault was this app I installed from Microsoft Store, I just had to uninstall temporary, being one of the last installed applications.

I think it would beneficial to know where this app gets installed (maybe a small section on the README.md with even manual/automatic install) and a small section on how to uninstall it or even a small note on this utility settings.

I personally found it weird it was impossible to uninstall it from the good old Control Pannel of Windows . I finally succeeded from System Settings -> App -> Installed Apps -> search for Caffeinated -> Uninstall

Please add adaptive icon

When the app runs in Light mode, the icon is white. When you have a white taskbar, it makes the icon almost unreadable. Would really like it if acted like other icons on the taskbar.

I am using the Microsoft Store version

add build instructions

I'm a long-time unix engineer, but am brand new to building for Windows, and so don't know the build tools very well. Would you be willing to add some basic build instructions to the project README?

For example, I'm currently using VS Code with the dotnet CLI tools, but am running into this bug, and don't know if this is the right approach. I see that there is also msbuild.exe as well as the full version of Visual Studio. So even having documented what you are using to build would be really helpful for me to try and replicate a known-working setup.

Bring in fix for 'Stay awake for' loses state

From @mosoto fork

"Fix bug where using 'Stay awake for' context menu repeatedly loses the original state thus preventing caffeine from ever being disabled except by exiting the program"

User-Configurable Times

Let users edit the delay times. Remove times they don't want and add their own times.

Preferences Over-Written with Upgrade

Every upgrade/update pushed via the Store resets the preferences of Caffeinated.

So, position in dock, and all settings (regardless of what I had set prior):

Is there a way to prevent this from happening?

(Absolutely love this, BTW, replaced Insomnia for me!)

Black icon in Dark mode

With the latest version (1.3.1.0 on Microsoft Store), the icon is black no matter what the taskbar theme mode is (Light or Dark).

Preventing the App from being opened more than 1 time

Currently the App doesn't detect on startup that another instance is currently running. The desired behavior should be that the App is only open once because there shouldn't be the need of a second instance.

Add packaging files to GitHub Repo

Currently the files associated with creating the appx package are not included in this repo, but they should be.

Consider more distinct icon

One of the difficulties I had with the original Caffeinated icon was that there wasn't sufficient visual distinction between the active and inactive state. I actually have find the same to be true with your updated eye icon... I have to focus very carefully to tell the difference.

What would you think of using the Material filled and outline coffee cup icons, like @adriancampos did in adriancampos@02405bd ? I think it matches the Windows 10 system icons nicely, and is easy to tell the difference between the two.

Update Store Listing Screenshots