Webex · Mac & Windows

Keep your Webex status active

Webex marks you Inactive after about 10 minutes without keyboard or mouse input. We tested Green Dotter against it directly: run a Wiggle session, and your status stays Available for as long as you set it, then pauses the moment you touch the mouse yourself.

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Green Dotter’s compact bar on a desktop. It clicks at random points inside one safe area you chose, or wiggles the mouse. Touch the mouse and it pauses, waiting for you. Leave it and it carries on.

Set up in a minute.

Pick a mode and press Start. That's the whole job.

Click

Choose one exact spot, or draw a box and it clicks somewhere inside it. Clicks land at random intervals inside the range you set, so the rhythm isn't mechanical.

Wiggle

Nothing to pick. The mouse drifts a little, the way yours does while you read. Choose how long, press Start, and leave it.

Green Dotter's main screen set to Wiggle only. A row of options offers 15 min, 30 min, 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours, Until stopped and Every, with 1 hour chosen, and a green Start button.

It steps aside when you take over.

Touch the mouse and it pauses, then carries on once you stop. While it runs it folds down to a small bar you can park in a corner.

Green Dotter's compact bar while clicking: 1 hour 17 minutes left, stops at 3:45 pm, 842 clicks so far, with pause and stop buttons. The same bar in amber after the mouse was touched: Paused, waiting for you to leave the mouse, with resume and stop buttons.
Beta · new in 2.10

Set the week once.

Pick your days and hours, add a lunch break. Start and stop times shift by a few minutes each day, so it isn't clocking in at 9:00 sharp.

Green Dotter's Scheduler tab. Status Waiting, next run today 8:53 am to 5:08 pm. A Timetable for Monday to Friday, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm with random starts up to 10 minutes before and stops up to 10 minutes after, lunch 1 to 2. Below, a week strip with green bars on each weekday and a gap at lunch.

Green Dotter has to be open, the tray is fine, and your computer on and signed in. It can't wake a sleeping computer. It's new, so if something looks off, tell us.

Why does Webex show you as Inactive?

Webex watches your computer for keyboard and mouse activity. Cisco's own help pages put the window at about 10 minutes: go that long without touching either, and your status flips from Available to Inactive, whether or not Webex itself is the app you're looking at.

There's no setting to stretch that window. It isn't tied to a specific meeting or chat, either. It's a read on the whole machine, so leaving the desk to read something, take a call on your phone, or sit in a meeting elsewhere is enough to trip it.

How we tested it

Rather than take Cisco's documentation on faith, we ran it ourselves on 24 September 2026: the real Webex desktop app, a real account, on Windows. Left alone with no input, the status flipped to Inactive somewhere between 10 and 17 minutes, in line with the 10-minute figure Cisco publishes.

We then reset it and started a Green Dotter Wiggle session. Thirty minutes later, still Available, no flip. We haven't run the same test on Mac yet, but Webex reads the same kind of activity there, and Green Dotter's Wiggle mode already does the same job for Slack and Teams on Mac, so we'd expect it to hold there too.

Setting your status manually in Webex

Webex gives you manual control over your status and availability. Cisco's own help article on this is called Show availability and statuses, worth a look if you haven't set a custom status before.

Limitation: a status you set by hand still sits alongside Webex's own automatic read of your activity. Once the inactivity window passes, Webex can move you to Inactive regardless of what you typed. For a five-minute break that's fine. For anything longer, the manual status isn't doing the actual work; keeping the machine active is.

Wiggle or click: which to use with Webex

Wiggle mode is the simplest fit here. Webex reads general computer activity, not clicks specifically, so a smooth, human-style cursor drift is enough on its own, and nothing gets clicked by accident inside a call window or a chat.

Click areas exists for tools that specifically need a click to register as active. It isn't necessary for Webex, but it's there if you'd rather use it, or if you're also running Green Dotter for something else that does need it.

Either way, touching the mouse or a key yourself pauses the session immediately. Step away again and it picks back up. The same approach works for Zoom.

Put it on a scheduleBeta

Green Dotter's Scheduler (beta) can start and stop itself on the days and times you pick, so it's on for your working day without you remembering to press Start. Make the times a little random if you like. The computer has to be on and signed in, and Green Dotter has to be running. In the tray is fine. It can't wake a sleeping computer.

It works for both Click and Wiggle, and History shows what actually happened.

Green Dotter's Scheduler tab, light theme: status Waiting, Next today 8:53 am to 5:08 pm, a Timetable switch with a Skip today button, and a week strip with green bars Monday to Friday, a gap at lunch and empty weekends
Your week at a glance. Green bars are the days and times it will run.

A note on workplace policies

Green Dotter is a tool you control, and this page describes what it does, not what you should do with it. Check your employer's policy on automation and status tools before running anything on a work or managed device. It doesn't hide activity from anyone or claim to be undetectable, and it won't get you past a locked screen or a device your IT department controls.

Common questions

No. Green Dotter is an independent app and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Cisco. Webex is a trademark of Cisco Systems.
We have only tested the Webex desktop app, on Windows, on 24 September 2026. We have not tested webex.com in a browser, and browser presence often works differently, so we are not making a claim about it either way.
No. Green Dotter only moves the mouse or clicks in an area you choose. It has nothing to do with reading, sending or marking messages, and Wiggle mode does not click anything at all.
No. Once the screen is locked, both Mac and Windows refuse simulated input, so Green Dotter cannot move the pointer and your Webex status will still go Inactive. Start it before you step away, not after.
Yes. Since version 2.10, the Scheduler tab lets you pick the days and the start and stop times, and Green Dotter starts and stops itself. Times can be exact or a little random, like starting up to 10 minutes before 9:00 and stopping up to 10 minutes after 5:00. You can add a lunch break, and it works for both Click and Wiggle. It's in beta.
No. The computer needs to be on and signed in, and Green Dotter has to be running. In the tray is fine. It can't wake a sleeping computer. If the computer sleeps or the screen locks during a scheduled stretch, the schedule pauses and carries on when you're back, and the History tab shows the gap.

Official Green Dotter download

Official Green Dotter download

Green Dotter is available two official ways: install from the Microsoft Store, or download it directly from green-dotter.com. No account, email address or subscription is required.

Get Green DotterClicks or wiggles, human-like, wherever and for as long as you set it, and auto stops when you move the mouse. Free for Mac and Windows.
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