Re: Can't turn off screen savers in System Preferences
Re: Can't turn off screen savers in System Preferences
- Subject: Re: Can't turn off screen savers in System Preferences
- From: Adam Bell <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:19:42 -0300
At 6:07 PM -0400 10/4/06, Bill Cheeseman wrote:
on 2006-10-04 12:50 AM, Philip Aker at email@hidden wrote:
Because of the difficulties you mention below, Bill, I've resorted to
StickSoftware's 'Jiggler" -- No-Doz for your Mac as they put it.
http://www.sticksoftware.com/software/Jiggler.html
Adam
Am I correct in understanding you guys to say that the above long-form
script works on 10.4.6 and on 10.4.8 Intel while my short form doesn't? I
ask, because neither the short-form nor the long-form works for me on 10.4.8
PPC -- with or without the 'select' line.
I also found that the virtual changes caused by 'increment' and 'decrement'
actions fail to stick.
I tried switching the window to 'show all' before quitting, but that didn't
help.
The observation that the help attribute still shows the old value is
discouraging.
In my script, I work around the problem by turning off the requirement of a
password to wake from sleep and screen saver. That way, the screen saver
popping up too soon doesn't really slow down my workflow, because the screen
saver goes away when I move the mouse. But I would rather not see it at all.
(My script is really a pair of scripts, one to make my laptop as usable as
possible when I'm in the security of my own home, and the other to make it
as secure as possible -- password protection on everything, and drop into
screen saver mode as quickly as possible -- when it's sitting on my desk at
work.)
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Bill Cheeseman - email@hidden
Quechee Software, Quechee, Vermont, USA
http://www.quecheesoftware.com
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