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Setting Custom Screen Saver via MCX or Config Profile on ML

  • April 24, 2014
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I am out of ideas!

I created a custom screen saver with a application called ScreenTime. I have now successfully deployed the screen saver to alll my clients, but cannot apply the screen saver & make it the default.

I tried to use MCX prefs and nada. I also have created a Configutation profile to no avail.

can anyone share how they got theirs to work? and how? if possible post a sample plist file

Thanks

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    bentoms
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    • April 24, 2014

    Hey @wmateo,

    The following is something we I wrote & used a while ago: http://macmule.com/2010/11/19/how-to-set-osxs-screen-saver-via-script/

    But we stopped using a screensaver created via ScreenTime as we found the Flash requirement a pain to keep up with the Flash Players update cycles, also the Macs would run "hot" compared to a normal screen saver.. Lastly we found with our 10.8 macs that after the ScreenTime screen saver came on.. Mission Control didn't work unless you ran:

    sudo killall Dock

    Overall, not fun.. but hope the script helps & that what we found was just a peculiarity of our setup.

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