MouseWithoutBorders periodically wakes pc up from display off state

[Matszwe02]

Microsoft PowerToys version

0.86.0

Installation method

PowerToys auto-update

Running as admin

None

Area(s) with issue?

Mouse Without Borders

Steps to reproduce

• Open mousewithoutborders
• wait for first pc to turn off screen after a few minues of inactivity
• start working on second pc, without moving cursor over to the first one
• first pc acts like I was moving my mouse from time to time - turns its screen back on

✔️ Expected Behavior

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❌ Actual Behavior

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Other Software

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We've found some similar issues:

• Keeps waking sleeping remote machine #26261 , similarity score: 81%

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[Matszwe02]

the behaviour is rapid mouse movement by a few pixels left and right from time to time

[cohncons]

Using Power Toys v0.86.0. MWB is not running in service mode. Mouse not set to wrap and requires CTRL to move between screens. Both systems running Windows 11 at latest service levels. PC with the keyboard and mouse focus is awake and in use, while the PC without the focus is online but the system is locked and the displays are sleeping. Unable to determine what I'm doing on the "in focus" system but, without warning, the "not in focus" systems makes a Windows alert sound of some sort and then displays the WHfB prompt for the PIN, as if I had moved the mouse on the "not in focus" system. This happens several times an hour and forces me to mute the "not in focus" system.

That said, this ONLY happens when the first system that set the key is in focus and the second system is not in focus. When the second system is in focus and the first system is not in focus, this does not occur.

[cohncons]

Updating my comment from last week: I was wrong about this only occurring when on the first system and the second system not having the focus. I hadn't noticed that it happens in both directions, whether on the first system with the second not having the focus or on the second system with the first not having the focus. I just hadn't heard the Windows alert sound on the first system when it wasn't in focus because it was muted. But, after posting my comment last week, I was more aware and noticed that, when the second system had the focus, the first system would also periodically "wake up" as if the mouse had been jiggled on it or a key had been pressed.

Again, this is an annoyance but hardly a showstopper for using the functionality.

[Matszwe02]

Updating my comment from last week: I was wrong about this only occurring when on the first system and the second system not having the focus. I hadn't noticed that it happens in both directions, whether on the first system with the second not having the focus or on the second system with the first not having the focus. I just hadn't heard the Windows alert sound on the first system when it wasn't in focus because it was muted. But, after posting my comment last week, I was more aware and noticed that, when the second system had the focus, the first system would also periodically "wake up" as if the mouse had been jiggled on it or a key had been pressed.

Again, this is an annoyance but hardly a showstopper for using the functionality.

I actually saw these jiggles multiple times. It goes left to right a few pixels maybe 5 times. I think it's a deliberate function that stops pc from going to sleep, but it's frustrating when I need the cursor to be steady or when I just want the pc to turn off its screen