Jan Varwig » adium http://jan.varwig.org Somewhere between Hello World and HAL9000 Wed, 17 Mar 2010 11:12:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Wake up your display with Adium and Applescript http://jan.varwig.org/archive/wake-up-your-display-with-adium-and-applescript http://jan.varwig.org/archive/wake-up-your-display-with-adium-and-applescript#comments Wed, 18 Jun 2008 21:17:59 +0000 Jan http://jan.varwig.org/?p=85 I had a problem with Adium: After 3 minutes of inactivity, my monitor goes to sleep. With the laptops volume turned low I would not notice any incoming messages whenever I was playing a game or anything that made some level of noise.

Back when I used windows, Miranda woke up my display when it received a message. That was an option I missed from Adium. The solution to this was pretty simple though. Adium provides the possibility to execute an Applescript on events. So I wrote a litte script to wake up my display and bound that to the “Message received (initial)” event. The script? Not very impressive:

tell application "System Events" to key code 59

But it works! :)

(Key Code 59 is the CTRL key, so you don’t accidentally trigger anything by firing it)

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