seanny / keepawake

Simple utility to prevent your Mac from showing its screensaver. This is a project I am using to learn Swift (and Cocoa) development.

KeepAwake

KeepAwake is a simple macOS utility to prevent your Mac from going to sleep.

Supported Versions:

• macOS 10.14

My goals for this app

My main goals are to learn Swift programming and this means that I will attempt to write everything needed in-house, I do not want to use any third party libraries for this project.

Features

• Prevent your mac from going to sleep

Screenshots

Compilation

Open project in Xcode 10.0+ and click build, or if you prefer doing it in a more unix way: $ xcodebuild -project KeepAwake.xcodeproj -scheme KeepAwake -sdk macosx10.14 clean analyze

System Requirements

• Any Mac that supports macOS 10.14 should be able to run it without any issues.

Getting help

Create an issue if you require help

License

• This software is licensed under the MIT license. Refer to LICENSE for more information.

keepawake's Issues

Activate for X minutes

Add the ability to activate caffeine for X amount of minutes.

Start on Login

Start the program on login if the user selects its in the menu bar.

Black MenuBar does not work

Check for Updates

A check for updates button that automatically checks for updates when selected.

About KeepAwake

An About KeepAwake menu item.

Sometimes does not start caffeine

Activate for X minutes

Allow the user to activate for X amount of minutes.

Split code into different files

Move most of the code out of AppDelegate and into its own class, best for organisation.

App does not prevent screensaver

The app does not prevent the screensaver, I suspect this might have something to do with the caffeinate program built-in to macOS.

Documentation

Write documentation