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How to lock the screen when using a screensaver desktop
Authored by: NetFu on Jul 10, '03 02:11:57PM

This is kind of weird, because I've never had any problem with this on my iMac 17" or PowerBook G4 12". I run the screensaver in the background and the screensaver starts/stops in the foreground on its own without any problems. I run the screensaver in the background with a unix script I call "saverbackground" which is just a command line executable text file containing:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background &

When I run the script in Terminal, it just runs an instance of the Screensaver app in the background. To stop it, I just type ps in Terminal and kill the screensaver process.

Also, I don't see the problems with using the screensaver to lock the screen -- I tried to kill it while it was running or type in a bogus password that was hundreds of characters long, but nothing affects it if you don't type in a valid password.

Is this unusual?



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