pudding

Dead simple mouse jiggler for Linux. Both X11 and Wayland are supported.

Installation

Pre-built binaries

You can download pre-built binaries from the releases page.

From source

You can also build pudding from source. You need to have Rust installed

git clone https://github.com/mucahitkurtlar/pudding
cd pudding
cargo build --release

The binary will be located at target/release/pudding.

Arch Linux

For Arch Linux users, pudding is not available yet on the AUR but you can use the following PKGBUILD to build and install pudding.

git clone https://github.com/mucahitkurtlar/pudding
cd pudding
cd build
makepkg -si

Usage

Before using pudding, you need to be sure that you have the necessary permissions. You can do this by running the following command:

sudo usermod -a -G input $USER

After that, you can run pudding by simply executing the binary.

pudding

Also you can run pudding with some options:

pudding --period 1 --duration 10 # Jiggles the mouse cursor every second for 10 minutes

pudding --help

Prints the help information.

pudding
Jiggles the mouse cursor.

USAGE:
    pudding [OPTIONS]

FLAGS:
    -h, --help       Prints help information
    -V, --version    Prints version information

OPTIONS:
    -p, --period <jiggling-period-secs>          Jiggling period in seconds [default: 1]
    -d, --duration <running-duration-minutes>
            Program running duration in minutes (if not specified, runs indefinitely)