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easier way...
I guess it's not really a big deal since you already did the legwork and people can just copy and paste, but an (IMO) easier way to do this is to put something like the following in your .cshrc (or whatever shell you use):
alias DTSaver 'cd /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS; ./ScreenSaverEngine -background' Then just save the file, exit that terminal, open a new one and type "DTSaver" or whatever you called it. Of course, you can add the '&' and the '-module' if you like. I find it more convenient to just leave the ampersand off so I can control-c kill it and my screen "effects" are already set to random. Just hide that terminal and open a new one if you need to do other terminal stuff. Also, bear in mind (for those of you that don't know unix or the alias command), those are not apostrophes before the "cd" and after the "-background" those are called grave accents and are located below escape -- i.e. the tilde (~) key sans the shift modifier. Works for me.
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Ummm.. this doesn't work in my default tcsh shell for the following reasons.
easier way...
You're right in that that is an easier way to use the basic functionality. That's what I used at first. But I wanted more flexibility, which would have been really hard to do in an alias, or would possibly have required multiple aliases, which would have gotten klunky. |
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