Auto start not working

[Kraiggers]

I have Aerial set to run on startup, but it does not do so (successfully). Maybe it's trying and failing?

I also have it set to auto-start after 5 minutes but it does not do so.

I have manually run Aerial, then I have to manually start the screensaver from the Windows system tray.

I'm running the newest version of Aerial, and the most current windows 11 pro. This has been consistent over the last few / six months at least?

There was a windows update around mid-year (I think?) that broke some other stuff; maybe Aerial was affected?

[swanlon]

Same issue here, it does not auto start, even with the pull request installed

[rdunn19d]

Win 10 here. What is described above is how it started for me. Then I discovered that I did not have the aerial.scv on my system (don't know how that happened). Got it, right-clicked and Installed, but it still won't run. When I come back to the PC, I get a blue screen (NOT the BSOD, just a blue screen) that I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del to get out of, and that brings me back to the Lock Screen. I did try to un-and-re-install, but same results. Just added this here because it was the closest description, and I'm sure I did something on my end to mess it up.

I have a laptop on Win 10 with a fresh Win 10 install that it works flawlessly on. So, yeah, I'm sure I messed something up.

[swanlon]

TEMPORARY WORKAROUND BELOW

I tried installing the aerial.scv as I thought it was it but nothing changed and other troubleshoots changed nothing again.
Decided to, with the help of AI, to create this AutoHotkey script that detects being idle for whatever miliseconds you put. If you been idle for the past assigned time it sends windows + ctrl + a (you can change it to whatever, just make sure its set the same in Aerial)
So far with my testings:
If you have a game open it does not start the screensaver
If you are watching a video/whatever, it does not start
If you are listening to music it keeps playing it but starts screensaver

All of those conditions are perfect for me, if you want to you can change them I guess. I don't understand enough of AHK so when you see
ResetIdleTime() {
SendEvent {Blind}{LControl}
And you find that weird, for some reason it works properly, with whatever key you press or any mouse movements, you can do tests yourself, just set the timer for 10s or something and open the condition you want to test/press keys/move mouse and see if it only starts Aerial once it hit time spent on conditions + set time on ahk
Make sure to set file extension to ahk (and make sure you have ahk installed lel)

AerialStart.txt