Re: Scripting the Screen Saver
Re: Scripting the Screen Saver
- Subject: Re: Scripting the Screen Saver
- From: "John C. Welch" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 14:15:00 -0500
- Thread-topic: Scripting the Screen Saver
On 5/25/05 14:00, "Courtney Braafhart" <email@hidden>
wrote:
> We would rather not lock down their preferences because we would like
> them to be able to customize their desktop picture and their actual
> screensaver.
So you want them to be able to change the screen saver but force them to
keep it active?
The problem is, with an applescript, it runs in the user's context, so six
seconds with activity monitor or their loginwindow prefs and they can kill
it. As well, using AppleScript to define "idle" in the screen saver sense is
tricky.
You can easily lock down the settings for the password so that they have to
use a password to dismiss the screen saver.
The other problem is that the screensaver timeout and setting are rather
monolithic, in that they both exist in the same panel.
Two options:
1) Set up the machine, lock the screensaver prefs file(s). That should work.
2) make a copy of the screensaver prefs, and hack the nib, deleting the
control for changing the time on the screensaver, and copy that in as the
new screensaver prefs. Copy the default one to a safe location so you can
use it if you need to.
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A: Oral.
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