Caffeine -watchwindow Microsoft Teams

Hey,

First off, thanks for the awesome little tool. 

What I'm trying to accomplish is to have caffeine active whenever Microsoft Teams is open.

The command that I am using is: .\caffeine64.exe -watchwindow:Microsoft Teams


However, it is always loading and staying active whether or not Teams is open, hidden in tray, or completely closed.

Is there something that I am doing wrong? Teams doesn't come with a title-bar at the top, so I am using the name from task manager.

Screenshots below:

 


Again, the issue is that it loads and stays active even when Microsoft Teams is not open or even installed.

Any suggestions?

I would also like to add that it isn't specific to Microsoft Teams. 

I can type in any random characters and it still is active like it detects it. 

See screenshot below

You are right , it seems it does not work for the parameter " -watchwindow "

You can send an email to Tom Revell :

https://www.zhornsoftware.co.uk/contact.html

Hi,

I've just been looking at the code to check that it's not become broken inadvertently - and it does seem OK.  However, the tool tip could be better phrased.  It should really say "active when a window title with 'xxx' in it is found".  The command line is also space-delimited, so I'd try this:

-watchwindow:teams

Assuming that there are no other windows on your system with the word "teams" in their titles, then Caffeine should only take action when a window with "teams" in the title is present.

Is that not what you're finding?

Tom

Yes it works , i misunderstood the meaning of the "active" trayicon here , it is not sending keys but just active looking out for the window name 

Unfortunately unless you log the f15 key you have no means of checking you have a correct window name as parameter as the trayicon does not indicate it is sending keys.

A change in the trayicon tooltip indicating it is sending keys would be usefull to know the window name is correct for triggering .

I'd also like to thank you for a cool and handy little program.  I'm having some trouble getting Caffeine to recognize a program using the "-watchwindow" parameter.  It's probably something I'm doing incorrectly.  I thought it would be OK to piggyback on this thread rather than start a new one.

• Does this parameter only look at what's listed under Task Manager | Processes | Apps or is the list of Background Processes also scanned?
  
• The complete window title of the program I am trying to detect is "Macrium Reflect - Workstation Edition - v7.3.5854 [UEFI]" so how best to format the -watchwindow: parameter?
  
• Rather than waiting for the computer to not sleep, is there a means to monitor if Caffeine has detected the window I'm trying to watch for?
  

Thanks.

Someone might fine this helpful. PowerShell one liner to show open window titles.

Code:

get-Process | Where-Object {$_.mainWindowTitle} | Format-Table Id, Name, mainWindowtitle -AutoSize