Re: Toggle Screensaver
Re: Toggle Screensaver
- Subject: Re: Toggle Screensaver
- From: kai <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 16:32:37 +0000
On 18 Feb 2006, at 04:53, Adam Bell wrote:
On 2/17/06, kai <email@hidden> wrote:
It changes the slider position here - but not if System Preferences
remains open when the script is run. (Generally, it's not a good idea
to edit plist files when related apps are open.)
I wasn't leaving the panel open, Kai, I was closing it before I ran
the script and opening it after I did.
Understood, Adam - just making sure we're comparing apples with
apples on our respective systems. BTW, I see that, of John's four
com.apple.screensaver.XXX plist files, only one actually contains an
idleTime key. Is this also the case with your seven files?
... will copy your script again tomorrow and try again (just now, I
am going to have a large Macallans with a wee bit of water and go
to bed)
Now why didn't I think of that? ;-)
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On 18 Feb 2006, at 05:37, John Baltutis wrote:
BTW, I didn't try your script. Does it
in fact change the idle time? I tried with the defaults command and
with the
Property List Editor. Neither would change the value. Only using
the slider in
the screensaver PrefPane was effective.
For me, John, the script changes the slider position/value in the
PrefPane (when System Preferences is reopened after running the
script). Apparently that's not the case for Adam, so I'm not yet sure
what's going on there. (If he has more than one file containing an
idleTime key, then there should be a relatively simple fix for that.)
Here, the physical idle time appears to be correct after the
screensaver engine has been activated once - which is why the later
version of the script (posted 18 Feb 2006, at 03:25) includes a
routine to run the engine briefly.
However, it still remains to be seen whether the approach works on
other machines...
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kai
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