[CUBE] osx screen saver login screen

[Anders Bogdan]

My OSX computers will eventually sleep when sitting at the login panel 
but I'd prefer sometimes to have it go into screen saver instead. "Back 
in the (good) old days", I used NeXTSTEP and to enable this sort of 
thing you used the terminal window:
 > dwrite loginwindow MoveWhenIdle YES

which in the OSX world would be:
 > defaults write com.apple.loginwindow MoveWhenIdle YES
but... things have changed, the above does not work.

loginwindow is definitely aware of screen savers but I don't see how to 
turn this on..
the program that runs as the loginwindow is located:
/System/Library/CoreServices/loginwindow.app/Contents/MacOS/loginwindow

 > strings loginwindow | grep -i saver
While this is a fairly naive way to check for the possibility, If you 
do this you'll see that it looks like some kind of screen saver is 
possible. Maybe its not ready for prime time yet.

Anders

On Sunday, February 16, 2003, at 12:17  AM, Alan Thompson wrote:

> it seems to me that when i log out, and am at the login screen, with 
> the multiple user icons showing, etc..  that the screen saver does not 
> activate in this state, nor do the monitor sleep settings seem to kick 
> in (i think), but i'm sure on the screen saver issue.
>
> what's the deal with this?  any workaround?
>