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Re: Screen saver deactivation
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Re: Screen saver deactivation


  • Subject: Re: Screen saver deactivation
  • From: Martin Orpen <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 09:30:50 +0100

on 4/10/04 12:30 am, John Fowler at email@hidden wrote:

> Does anybody have a foolproof way to keep screen saver from activating
> until the script is finished?  Is there some reason that setting screen
> saver to "never" doesn't work?

We discussed this recently.

UI methods will adjust the slider, but the new setting will *never* stick.

I can't recall who posted this line, but it seems the easiest method:

    do shell script "defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver
idleTime 0"

Regards

--
Martin Orpen
Idea Digital Imaging Ltd -- The Image Specialists
http://www.idea-digital.com


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