This is a rewrite of a little utility that my coworker used to prank our old boss. That version was in C# but was lost in the sea of shifting bits. He later rewrote it in node.js however, this required the node runtime and would place a item in the taskbar alerting the 'user' to the prank.
This version has been redesigned to be easier to extend with other prank strategies and to compile as a dependency free binary. It runs without placing a entry in the taskbar.
Just hide the binary somewhere and have it called on start up with the desired mode.
For example in the crontab have the entry:
0 * * * * /usr/local/bin/gomousego --mode momentum
You can choose the mode desired by using the --mode flag. See below for a description of each strategy.
momentum-- the original demonmouse mode. Cursor will retain it's momentum and keep moving.scroll-- spins the mouse wheel at random times.
If you have Go and are building on linux with all the libraries installed just run go build.
On Windows to avoid spawning a cmd prompt you should compile with go build -ldflags "-H windowsgui"
Make sure to go get the dependencies
Follow the instructions below relating to your setup.
If you have nix you can just run the following for a complete build environment:
nix-shell -p xorg.libX11 xorg.libXtst xorg.libXext xorg.libXi libpng libxkbcommon go
Install the following packages:
sudo apt-get install libx11-dev
sudo apt-get install libxtst-dev libpng++-dev
sudo apt-get install xcb libxcb-xkb-dev x11-xkb-utils libx11-xcb-dev libxkbcommon-x11-dev
sudo apt-get install libxkbcommon-dev
I recommend using the below to use as your Mingw installation. Simply clone it to the root of your C drive:
git clone https://github.com/go-vgo/Mingw.git
Then setup your environment :
set GOPATH=c:\users\kalebo\repos\gocode
set PATH=C:\mingw\bin;%PATH%
This was written in Go with the awesome robotgo library.
Overall the code is reasonably idiomatic and uses the strategy pattern in it's design. Because of this it should be pretty easy to add new modes: just implement the IStrategy interface on your new struct and add the instantiation call in the switch statement in main().
Any pull requests are welcome.