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Mac screen saver change timing
Mac screen saver change timing













mac screen saver change timing

Open the desktop copy in XCode, TextWrangler, or your preferred text editor.Drag "ist" to the desktop (it will copy).Option-drag the file to create a duplicate copy and rename it "" (just in case).System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/amework/Versions/A/Resources/Content/ Navigate to this folder in the Finder and find the file called "ist":.(Side rant: I feel justified in refusing to resort to the terminal for a simple permissions change, a capability that has supposedly existed in the Finder for 9 major iterations of OS X.) Do the following:

mac screen saver change timing

In 10.8, no matter how I tried altering the permissions of the relevant file and folder in the Finder or "unlocking" the file (as XCode refers to it), I could not get XCode (or TextWrangler) to write to the file, so I had to alter the CNET instructions a bit. I found the method on this page from CNET, the author of which apparently found it here. It works, but it's a bit of a pain, so if anyone knows of an easier method, please contribute. After discovering that Apple, amazingly, no longer provides a built-in way to alter the duration of each slide, I set out to figure out how to change it to suit my preference. I like to use images of various quotes as my screensaver, but the default 3-second duration for each slide isn't enough for several of the quotes.















Mac screen saver change timing