New feature: toggle Jiggler with a shortcut

[mmiller42]

I toggle Jiggler on and off somewhat frequently. It would be really nice if you could configure a shortcut in preferences for it.

[bhaller]

It's not under active development, but maybe it'll happen some day – especially if somebody submits a pull request for it. :->

[chrisafraser]

Until that day comes, here is a script I have created for control via other automation tooling(cron, launchd, hotkeys etc):

#!/bin/bash

JIGGLER_PID=$(pgrep Jiggler)
if [ -z $JIGGLER_PID ]; then
  echo starting jiggler
  /Applications/Jiggler.app/Contents/MacOS/Jiggler &
  sleep 1
fi

TOGGLE="true"
JIGGLE="true"

if [[ $* == *-e* ]]
then
	TOGGLE="false"
	JIGGLE="true"
elif [[ $* == *-d* ]]
then
	TOGGLE="false"
	JIGGLE="false"
fi

osascript <<EOF

set jiggle to $JIGGLE
set toggle to $TOGGLE

tell application "System Events" to tell process "Jiggler" to ¬
	tell menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1
		click
		set jigglingActive to (value of attribute "AXMenuItemMarkChar" of menu item "Jiggler Enabled" of menu 1 of menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1 of application process "Jiggler" of application "System Events") is "✓"

		if jiggle is not jigglingActive or toggle is true then
			click menu item "Jiggler Enabled" of menu 1 of menu bar item 1 of menu bar 1 of application process "Jiggler" of application "System Events"
		else
			key code 53 -- close menu bar
		end if

	end tell

ensure its executable (chmod +x jigglectl) then run via jigglectl --enable and jigglectl --disable, if no flags given it just toggles the state on/off.