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CLUSTER DESKTOP-UTILITY-COMPUTER · 27 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2026-01-21

Desktop sleep prevention utilities

This cluster comprises desktop utilities that manage system idle and sleep behavior—preventing sleep, simulating activity, scheduling shutdowns, and adjusting screen dimming. The dated history is sparse, with a single entry in 2020 and then a cluster of entries in early 2026, suggesting sporadic development rather than a consistent trend. Traction leaders are keepawake, AI-Task-Keeper, and stayawake, each with 0 stars, indicating minimal user activity.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JAN 2020: 1JUL 2025: 1JAN 2026: 1MAY 2026: 3AUG 2026: 1SEP 2026: 17OCT 2026: 3
JAN 2020OCT 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 1 ai-built · 6 unlabelled

Operator · 5 hobby · 1 open source · 1 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 7 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 21stayawake0★1 mo—Windows daemon that suppresses sleep based on real user activity rather than just keyboard and mouse idle time.
  2. 22Taskbar-Hider0★1 mo—hobbyDesktop utility that hides the Windows taskbar and reveals it temporarily when the mouse is clicked near the screen edge.
  3. 23suspense-app0★1 mo—hobbyWindows desktop utility that monitors keyboard and mouse inactivity and automatically puts the computer to sleep after a configurable delay.
  4. 24CaffeineBoost0★1 mo—hobbyWindows desktop utility that keeps the computer awake during long tasks by preventing sleep and display turn-off without modifying the system power plan.
  5. 25NoLidSleep2★4 mo—ai-builthobbyWindows utility that prevents laptop sleep when the lid is closed so coding agents keep running.
  6. 26IdleGhostApp2★1 yrabandonedlivehobbyDesktop tool that simulates mouse and keyboard activity to make a computer appear active and avoid idle status.
  7. 27idlemon0★5 moliveopen sourceSystem utility that exposes idle-monitor signals for desktop environments on X11.

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