You can use Google Chrome‘s --kiosk mode to create a full-screen screensaver of sorts. This might be good if you have a webpage or intranet page you’d like to display. Here’s how I did it for a windows computer:
Create a file such as c:\screensaver.bat and add the following code. Replace with your location of chrome.exe
@echo off
taskkill /im chrome.exe
start /wait "" "C:\Documents and Settings\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --kiosk http://www.mysite.com
rem ## run any command here you'd like after the "screensaver" finishes ##
Next, set that to run as a scheduled task after the computer has been idle for 5 minutes (or however long you choose).
You can then listen with jQuery / javascript to close the page when the mouse moves. Here is code that closes the page when the mouse moves more than 20 pixels. You could also bind it to a keyboard event.
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<h1>hello</h1>
<div id="log"></div>
<script type="text/javascript">
var startx = '';
var starty = '';
jQuery('html').bind('mousemove',function(event){
if(startx == ''){
startx = event.pageX;
starty = event.pageY;
}else
{
deltax = Math.abs(event.pageX - startx);
deltay = Math.abs(event.pageY - starty);
var msg = '';
msg += "distance x ";
msg += deltax;
msg += "distance y ";
msg += deltay;
$("#log").html("<div>" + msg + "</div>");
if(deltax > 20 || deltay > 20){
closeWindow();
}
}
});
function closeWindow(){
setTimeout(function(){
window.open('', '_self', '');
window.close();
},1000);
}
</script>
</body>
</html>
Thanks.
Next, set that to run as a scheduled task after the computer has been idle for 5 minutes (or however long you choose).
How do I program this?
Yes, in fact that is what the kiosk mode (mentioned above) does :)
For scheduling it, go into control panel and there is a “Scheduled Tasks” section, or just google “windows add scheduled tasks” and pick your version of windows.
Is it also possible to set Chrome fullscreen on the ‘screensaver’ launch?