diff --git a/keyboards/crkbd/.vscode/c_cpp_properties.json b/keyboards/crkbd/.vscode/c_cpp_properties.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..46dce25eae2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/keyboards/crkbd/.vscode/c_cpp_properties.json
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{
+    "configurations": [
+        {
+            "name": "Win32",
+            "includePath": [
+                "${workspaceFolder}/**"
+            ],
+            "defines": [
+                "_DEBUG",
+                "UNICODE",
+                "_UNICODE"
+            ],
+            "windowsSdkVersion": "10.0.16299.0",
+            "compilerPath": "C:/Program Files (x86)/Microsoft Visual Studio/2017/Community/VC/Tools/MSVC/14.13.26128/bin/Hostx64/x64/cl.exe",
+            "cStandard": "c11",
+            "cppStandard": "c++17",
+            "intelliSenseMode": "msvc-x64"
+        }
+    ],
+    "version": 4
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/keyboards/crkbd/crkbd.c b/keyboards/crkbd/crkbd.c
index 5e8ba8bacf4..0fd1564404e 100644
--- a/keyboards/crkbd/crkbd.c
+++ b/keyboards/crkbd/crkbd.c
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
 #include "crkbd.h"
+#include "ssd1306.h" 
+
+bool process_record_kb(uint16_t keycode, keyrecord_t *record) {
+    process_record_gfx(keycode,record);
+	return process_record_user(keycode, record);
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/keyboards/crkbd/ssd1306.c b/keyboards/crkbd/ssd1306.c
index 205ce67a9e0..33ffb7e2917 100644
--- a/keyboards/crkbd/ssd1306.c
+++ b/keyboards/crkbd/ssd1306.c
@@ -24,12 +24,17 @@ static const unsigned char font[] PROGMEM;
 //static uint16_t last_battery_update;
 //static uint32_t vbat;
 //#define BatteryUpdateInterval 10000 /* milliseconds */
-#define ScreenOffInterval 300000 /* milliseconds */
+
+// 'last_flush' is declared as uint16_t,
+// so this must be less than 65535 
+#define ScreenOffInterval 60000 /* milliseconds */
 #if DEBUG_TO_SCREEN
 static uint8_t displaying;
 #endif
 static uint16_t last_flush;
 
+static bool force_dirty = true;
+
 // Write command sequence.
 // Returns true on success.
 static inline bool _send_cmd1(uint8_t cmd) {
@@ -321,12 +326,19 @@ void iota_gfx_task_user(void) {
 void iota_gfx_task(void) {
   iota_gfx_task_user();
 
-  if (display.dirty) {
+  if (display.dirty || force_dirty) {
     iota_gfx_flush();
+    force_dirty = false;
   }
 
   if (timer_elapsed(last_flush) > ScreenOffInterval) {
     iota_gfx_off();
   }
 }
+
+bool process_record_gfx(uint16_t keycode, keyrecord_t *record) {
+  force_dirty = true;
+  return true;
+}
+
 #endif
diff --git a/keyboards/crkbd/ssd1306.h b/keyboards/crkbd/ssd1306.h
index 76dd6a2a72d..71daf06ff48 100644
--- a/keyboards/crkbd/ssd1306.h
+++ b/keyboards/crkbd/ssd1306.h
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #include <stdbool.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include "pincontrol.h"
+#include "action.h"
 
 enum ssd1306_cmds {
   DisplayOff = 0xAE,
@@ -86,3 +87,5 @@ void matrix_write(struct CharacterMatrix *matrix, const char *data);
 void matrix_write_ln(struct CharacterMatrix *matrix, const char *data);
 void matrix_write_P(struct CharacterMatrix *matrix, const char *data);
 void matrix_render(struct CharacterMatrix *matrix);
+
+bool process_record_gfx(uint16_t keycode, keyrecord_t *record);