Timeline for Screen Saver Stuck On, How To Escape?
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| Apr 9, 2023 at 17:56 | comment | added | auspicious99 | @Terrance Synergy, yes, me too. I ssh'ed in to the machine and googled to find what I could use to kill the screensaver. This works indeed! | |
| Dec 17, 2021 at 15:41 | comment | added | Terrance | This is the best answer if you are using Synergy where you are not using the Mac's mouse and keyboard. Most of the time it kills the screensaver when I unlock the system, but sometimes it gets stuck and this does the trick in an ssh session. +1 Many thanks!! | |
| Oct 28, 2020 at 9:03 | comment | added | scipsycho |
In my case, what I found was, mac was still receiving key presses. So, I just opened terminal (press Cmd + space, type terminal and press enter). Then run this command to kill the screensaver process. kill `ps -ef | grep -i screensaver | head -1 | awk '{print $2}'`. However, it messed up my launcher settings or something.
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| Jun 19, 2020 at 22:16 | comment | added | atwixtor | This worked when lock/unlock did not. | |
| May 20, 2020 at 22:36 | history | edited | Coder Guy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Clarification on differences in behavior between locked screen and active screensaver
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| May 20, 2020 at 22:34 | comment | added | Coder Guy | @spinup no, just the user of the session with the screen saver. | |
| May 17, 2020 at 5:23 | comment | added | SpinUp __ A Davis | Good idea -- would this require root/sudo? | |
| May 13, 2020 at 19:44 | review | First posts | |||
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| May 13, 2020 at 19:38 | history | answered | Coder Guy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |