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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.