Hi Everyone,
I have a couple lobby displays with mac minis connected to display pictures/slideshows. How can I set the screen saver to Never? I've tried settings in Configuration Profiles and Managed Preference Profiles, but nothing seems to be straight forward and clear as to resolve this so I'm confused. Thank you in advance for any help.
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How do I set Screen Saver to Never?
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+11Your easiest solution may be to package up Caffeine with the proper settings and deploy it to the minis.
+10You can create a policy that executes the following command
defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver idleTime 0Scope that policy to the required computers and they will no longer display a screensaver
+5This appears to be a user level setting. When I run it at login it does not affect the currently logging in user.
+4would the following work:
user1=stat -f "%Su" /dev/console
sudo -u $user1 defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver idleTime 0
With things like this I use configuration profiles github is a great source for this kind of thing
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