Re: Scripting the Screen Saver
Re: Scripting the Screen Saver
- Subject: Re: Scripting the Screen Saver
- From: "William M. Smith" <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 19:46:42 -0500
- Thread-topic: Scripting the Screen Saver
On 5/25/05 9:25 AM, "Courtney Braafhart" <email@hidden>
wrote:
>
> I would like to write a script that starts the screensaver if a
> user's machine has been idle for 15 minutes. Does anyone have any
> ideas of where I should begin?
I had the same problem but did the opposite.
First, I set the permissions on the "Desktop & Screensaver" preference pane
file to no access for a normal user (-rwxrwx--- root admin).
Next, I modified the default screensaver preferences plist file so that all
new users activated the screensaver after 20 minutes.
Then I created a simple drag and drop Applescript to allow folks to set
their Desktop picture. The basic syntax is
tell application "Finder"
set desktop picture to...
end tell
The only downside I've found is that fit to screen, stretch, tile, etc.,
don't seem to be scriptable.
bill
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William M. Smith
Minneapolis, MN
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