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How can I set the Mac OS X screensaver when not logged in?
When logged in to my user account, the screensaver selected in System Preferences is used. However, when on the login screen before logging in or using fast user switching a different screensaver is ...
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How can I disable the Screen Saver on the login window?
How can I disable the Screen Saver on the login window?
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Activating screen saver from AppleScript in Mountain Lion
I had a script that I used to use to activate my screen saver, and it no longer works in Mountain Lion.
It was a shell script that called an AppleScript script:
#!/bin/bash
osascript ...
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How can I show the login window after a period of inactivity?
How can I make my Mac display the login screen (as though I'd selected "Login window" from the fast user switching menu) after the session has been idle for a certain time?
I can make it log out ...
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10.7.3 - Screensaver turns on while I'm in the middle of typing/mouse activity
Has anyone seen this? Let's say I set my screen saver to activate after 5 minutes. Well I can be typing and using the mouse almost continuously for a period of time (5 minutes? I'm not exactly ...
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Why when I wake my new iMac from Sleep, I have to scrape away a layer of screensaver or Lion linen to log in?
I have a strange problem. I am very good with Macs and all Apple products, but this one has me stumped.
I have a new (4 months old) 27" iMac (2.7 GHz Intel Core i5) with Lion 10.7.2
and it works ...