Hi,

I'm trying to automate starting and stopping the DisplayFusion Screensaver without physical user interaction (human pressing a keyboard key or moving the mouse).

I'm successfully able to start the DisplayFusion Screensaver and then I cannot stop it using a hotkey to call a function (keypress or mouse movement) in DisplayFusion. Also, I tried using other methods like NirCmd and AutoHotKey but I was not successful.

Please let me know what it the bext way to stop the screensaver. I can control anything in the PC, even killing the particular process running the DisplayFusion Screensaver.

Thanks in advance.

works for me.

It doesn't work.

While the screensaver is running, the PC doesn't respond to automated command line calls via bat/exe/etc. It just responds to physical mouse/keyboard controls.

This sounds like a bug to me. if it responds to physical mouse and keyboard commands, why wouldn't it respond to the same commands but simulated by an automated process via bat/exe/cmd line?

Maybe whatever you're using doesn't have enough "presense" to work while the screensaver is active. A batch file that starts the screensaver, waits 4 seconds then runs taskkill works fine. A DF Custom Function as I wrote above run by DisplayFusion and triggered by mobile works as well. Of course if your screensaver is not actually managed by DisplayFusion, then the taskkill parameter will be wrong.