Wimoweh

Wimoweh is a menu bar application that allows you to have better control over how your Mac sleeps

• Shows which Apps are preventing your Mac from sleeping and why.
• Allows you to always stay awake when certain applications are running and automatically sleep when they've finished. This is great for apps that Lion seems to 'ignore' even though they're working or if you're waiting for a lengthy job to finish and want the Mac to sleep afterwards.
• Set up a countdown to keep your Mac awake for a certain amount of time
• And of course, you can just keep your Mac awake indefinitely.

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News

130603 12:56

	-- Choose different coloured icons dependant on whether the system / Wimoweh will allow sleep or not
	-- Added tick marks for 'Prevent Computer Sleep Until'
	-- Code tidy-up

130525 18:31

	-- Choose different coloured icons dependant on whether the system / Wimoweh will allow sleep or not
	-- Added tick marks for 'Prevent Computer Sleep Until'

130502 14:50

	-- Fixed bug which causes intermittent crashes (pointer issues) - thanks to AnnaLisa and Daniel
	-- Rolled in fixes from 0.42b

130430 16:10

	-- New FAQ Section Added.  

130429 12:58

	-- Fixed bug with 'Never Sleep Whilst Running' menu which prevented newly asserted Apps showning 

130429 12:58

	-- Performance improvements (memory usage)

** Two users are reporting crashes with Wimoweh 0.4x - please e-mail feedback@serialangels.co.uk if you have similar problems.

130414 15:04

	-- Remove Power Information Menu temporarily - too many bugs for too little benefit - need a battery powered Mac to test with
	-- Fixed multiple memory leaks when working out applications with current assertions

130412 08:21

	-- Prevent Computer Sleep for user specified time
	-- Prevent Display Sleep or Idle Sleep
	-- Show / Hide Power Information
	-- Purge remembered apps

130330 12:39

	-- Fixed bug where changing the assertion type (DisplaySleep->IdleSleep or vice versa) would create two new assertions (we only want one)
	-- Update the string displayed when timer is counting down
	-- Added header to 'Never Sleep Whilst Running'

	

130327 21:03

	-- Prevent Computer Sleep for user specified time
	-- Prevent Display Sleep or Idle Sleep
	-- Show / Hide Power Information
	-- Purge remembered apps
	
	

130228 13:40

	-- Synchronize with App Store version
	

130221 11:06

	-- Initial release for BETA testing

 Click here to download the BETA

FAQ

Q: Why doesn't Wimoweh support 'clamshell mode', ie, the ability to close the lid and keep the machine awake?

A: In brief, for three reasons:

1. I don't have a battery powered Mac on which to test it.

2. Preventing sleep when the lid is closed isn't supported by Apple in the way that most people who ask me for it want it. I don't know the reason Apple don't support it but it may be that they don't want to deal with the fallout from consumers setting fire to their soft furnishings because they maxed out their CPU, shut the lid and left the machine running. That being said numerous users inform they run Macbook Pro's with the lid closed with no problems. YMMV.

   This also means that Apple may change or remove the existing functionality without notice. Additionally it means Wimoweh (in that form) can't go on AppStore, which is if nothing else, is a great 'shop window'. However there are other apps that do this, insomniaX seems to be the one most people use.

3. Because of 2 it's actually quite hard to do. The method Insomnia et al. use is to provide a kernel extension (also a no-no for App Store) which I have zero experience in writing for Macs and therefore has great potential for instability. Also see point # 1.