Re: Scripting the Screen Saver
Re: Scripting the Screen Saver
- Subject: Re: Scripting the Screen Saver
- From: Courtney Braafhart <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 09:27:16 -0500
Thanks for all of your ideas. I am going to try locking down the
preference pane file and modifing the plist file. The other thing I
have been experimenting with is creating a cron job that performs a
shell script that does a default write to the
"com.apple.screensaver..... " file every few minutes. But I have
been getting unexpected results.
I still think there should be an easy apple script answer : )
Well thanks again!
Happy Apple Scripting
On May 25, 2005, at 9:20 PM, kai wrote:
On Thursday, May 26, 2005, at 02:05 am, Jake Pietrykowski wrote:
On May 25, 2005, at 7:46 PM, William M. Smith wrote:
The only downside I've found is that fit to screen, stretch,
tile, etc.,
don't seem to be scriptable.
I've done this...you just have to edit the appropriate .plist
file. I can't remember which one. Hrmmm... (Side note...I have
this nagging problem with the desktop pref pane, where my
{stretch, center, etc.} menu list disappears, don't even have a
pulldown)
(path to "pref" as Unicode text) & "com.apple.desktop.plist"
try changing your setting from stretch to center, then do a search
for the last modified file (modified today, visiblity both
invisible and visible) and you will have a few to browse. Just
look for the proper key. I believe proper values are 'stretch',
'center', 'tile'.
In case it helps, these are the settings I have here for both
System Preferences and the .plist file (against 'Placement'). As
Jake suggests, it's worth checking the settings on your own system.
System Prefs : pList 'Placement'
------------- -----------------
Fill screen : Crop
Stretch to fill screen : FillScreen
Center : Centered
Tile : Tiled
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kai
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