Activate the screensaver after any length of idle time

Nov 21, '03 11:03:00AM

Contributed by: waferbaby

You can set the time before your screensaver kicks in to be any duration you like (I wanted something less than the three minutes that Apple lets you have as minumum), by editing a property list file in your user's Library -> Preferences -> ByHost -> com.apple.screensaver.[some string].plist.

Change the idleTime property (it's in seconds) to whatever you want, and log out to make it take effect.

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