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Re: Can't turn off screen savers in System Preferences
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Re: Can't turn off screen savers in System Preferences


  • Subject: Re: Can't turn off screen savers in System Preferences
  • From: Bill Cheeseman <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2006 06:56:49 -0400
  • Thread-topic: Can't turn off screen savers in System Preferences

on 2006-10-07 5:39 PM, deivy petrescu at email@hidden wrote:

>> However, between 2 hours and 3 hours you can't drag it to any
>> intermediate
>
> I don't have 3 hours, you probably meant "Never", right?

Right.

>> You can't set any value between 241 and 360, inclusive. UI Browser
>> gives a
>> range error; GUI Scripting, manually dragging and manually clicking
>> snaps it
>> to 240 or 361. You also cannot set the value to any number below
>> 10, other
>
> I think you mean 300 and 360. I can set mine to any value between 240
> and 300.

Right again. Gack!

>> Finally, using UI Browser's Attributes drawer to set the value to
>> any legal
>> value also fails to stick when you quit System Preferences and
>> restart it.
>
> Here I take issues with you. I believe it does not stick period!
> If you change the dial manually it sticks immediately, you can read
> it from the defaults value. Changing it via UI does not affect the
> value. So it is "moved" but never "changed". And this is independent
> of quitting and restarting SP.

Agreed.

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