Has anyone managed to apply the following setting from the terminal?
System Prefs > Notifications > Do Not Disturb > Check When the display is sleeping
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Do Not Disturb - Turn on When Display Sleeping setting via Terminal?
+22Best answer by Cayde-6
So it actually turns out trying to modify the UUID.plist file directly caused problems. The below is how I've now managed to fix the issue
Get the current logged in username (jamf recommended method)
loggedInUser=$(python -c 'from SystemConfiguration import SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser; import sys; username = (SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser(None, None, None) or [None])[0]; username = [username,""][username in [u"loginwindow", None, u""]]; sys.stdout.write(username + " ");')
Enables Do Not Disturb during Display Sleep
sudo -u ${loggedInUser} defaults -currentHost write com.apple.notificationcenterui dndEnabledDisplaySleep -bool YES
+15You might have to tinker with a scalable/scriptiable solution b/c there seems to be a unique ID appended to the plist that preference is stored in. You can check against what you see on your machine...
sudo defaults write ~/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.apple.notificationcenterui.0954B6FD-C914-51EF-8955-90DA3DC3AFCE.plist dndEnabledDisplaySleep -bool YES1 person likes this
+16@LewisB Any plists stored in the ByHost folder in ~/Library/Preferences/ have the Mac's UUID number appended to them, which is what that long string of numbers/letters is.
You can find your Mac's UUID by doing ioreg -rd1 -c IOPlatformExpertDevice | awk -F" '/IOPlatformUUID/{print $4}' What that outputs should match with a plist in that folder as part of the name like shown above.
+15+22So it actually turns out trying to modify the UUID.plist file directly caused problems. The below is how I've now managed to fix the issue
Get the current logged in username (jamf recommended method)
loggedInUser=$(python -c 'from SystemConfiguration import SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser; import sys; username = (SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser(None, None, None) or [None])[0]; username = [username,""][username in [u"loginwindow", None, u""]]; sys.stdout.write(username + " ");')
Enables Do Not Disturb during Display Sleep
sudo -u ${loggedInUser} defaults -currentHost write com.apple.notificationcenterui dndEnabledDisplaySleep -bool YES
+1Cayde-6 wrote:
So it actually turns out trying to modify the UUID.plist file directly caused problems. The below is how I've now managed to fix the issue
Get the current logged in username (jamf recommended method)
loggedInUser=$(python -c 'from SystemConfiguration import SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser; import sys; username = (SCDynamicStoreCopyConsoleUser(None, None, None) or [None])[0]; username = [username,""][username in [u"loginwindow", None, u""]]; sys.stdout.write(username + " ");')
Enables Do Not Disturb during Display Sleep
sudo -u ${loggedInUser} defaults -currentHost write com.apple.notificationcenterui dndEnabledDisplaySleep -bool YES
Just a note for folks referred here by Box’ support article on File Provider Extensions: the invocation of Python in the example here will trigger user notifications unless the system has been configured to use an installed version of Python 3, as Apple is deprecating Python version 2 and will stop including it with macOS at some future point. You can avoid this by obtaining the logged-in user’s name this way:
loggedInUser=$( stat -f %Su /dev/console )
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