OLEDGuard 1.2.0

28 October 2026

Idle fade

When the keyboard and mouse have been still for a minute, the action bars, minimap, unit frames, buffs and quest tracker dim to a quarter of their brightness over three seconds, and they are back the instant you move. The fade waits while you are reading a tooltip, have a window or your bags open or are typing in chat, and it never happens in combat or in Edit Mode. The delay, the dimmed brightness and both fade times can be changed, and the chat windows can be included.

AFK screen

After five minutes without input, or ten seconds after you flag yourself AFK, the whole screen turns black with a small clock that drifts around. On an OLED panel a black pixel is a pixel that is switched off, so nothing is left burning while you are away. Any input brings everything back at once, and whispers, queue pops, ready checks and invites wake the screen for you. It stays away during cinematics and on flight paths.

Pixel shift

The whole interface moves two pixels along a small circle, so no pixel keeps the exact same job for hours. By default it only moves behind a loading screen or under the black AFK screen, where the step cannot be seen; the distance and interval can be changed, and it can be set to step while you play as well.

Settings

Escape, Options, AddOns, OLEDGuard holds a switch or slider for everything. Each change is confirmed with a line in chat, and the brightness, fade times and shift distance are previewed behind the panel while you adjust them. The same controls are available from chat with /oled, and /oled test and /oled afk now show the fade and the black screen right away.

Minimap button

A button by the minimap opens the settings. Shift-click turns the addon on and off, right-click opens a short menu, and the button can be hidden; it stays reachable from the addon compartment.

Clients

Works on Retail, WoW Forever and Classic Era.

OLEDGuard is free and stays free. If you would like to support the work: https://ko-fi.com/adam5288