Re: Toggle Screensaver
Re: Toggle Screensaver
- Subject: Re: Toggle Screensaver
- From: kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:43:09 +0000
On 17 Feb 2006, at 20:45, John Baltutis wrote:
Since the setting is stored in one of many ~/Library/Preferences/
ByHost/
com.apple.screensaver.XXXX.plist files (there are four in my
directory), you'll
have to find the one that includes the key IdleTime (in seconds).
However,
although you can read it with the terminal command "defaults read
~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/ in the com.apple.screensaver.XXXX",
AFAICT,
there's no way to write to it; all attempts result in a "Rep
argument is not a
dictionary Defaults have not been changed." message. Good luck in your
endeavors. Plist manipulations are esoteric. See the manpage for
defaults.
I was quite content with my solitary little file before I read that,
John. Now I feel kinda short-changed... ;-)
In that case, I suppose a variation of my last suggestion might go
something like:
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set f to (path to preferences folder as Unicode text) & "ByHost"
tell application "Finder" to set l to (folder f's files whose name
starts with ¬
"com.apple.screensaver" and name does not contain "slideshow")
repeat with i in l
set p to (i as Unicode text)'s POSIX path
tell application "System Events" to tell property list item ¬
"idleTime" of property list file p to if exists then
if value is 0 then
set value to 180
else
set value to 0
end if
exit repeat
end if
end repeat
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kai
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