StuffOfInterest, some time ago, you talked about an option that would automatically start the miner when the screensaver got activated, or something similar. How's that coming along? I sometimes forget to turn on the miner, and when I come back after an hour and see that my PC was just idling, it is pretty annoying.
I had tabled the idea a while back when I noticed that every time Miner Control stopped one miner and started another it would bring the computer out of screen saver mode. Appeared to be related to opening a new window. Since I put in the internal console I haven't seen that behavior so it may be worth revisiting the idea. I did a little bit of research on how to detect the screen saver but it looked at the time like the techniques were a bit hit or miss. I'll have to look into it again.
Perhaps with it's own inactivity timer, or perhaps if the GPU activity is lower than a certain percentage for a certain time (all configurable by .conf?) it starts. The same could apply for CPU. It would not deactivate when you would resume normal use, but you'd just have to check for that.