Loginwindow Screensaver won't start - OS11+12

Quillathe
New Contributor

Hey All!

I've tried with 0 success to get the screensaver to load up on the login window.   (set to 1min to speed up testing)

Screen Shot 2022-08-22 at 12.44.24 PM.png

I've tried all the Screensavers, but none will load over the login window. 

However, if a user is logged in, no problem, the screensaver comes right up.

 

It's not the biggest problem, but to save my screens from burning, I set a power setting to put the display to sleep instead.  Students think the Macs are off instead of sitting down to use them and drift off to use a PC.  We run lots of metrics and device use often defines device purchasing. 

Any suggestions or maybe an upcoming patch/update?  I've tried some of the older scripting madness I used to use to overwrite pref/plists etc but those no longer work (really haven't worked well since Catalina).  I'm just stuck. 😥

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boberito
Valued Contributor

Screen burn in, isn't really a thing anymore.

Also I believe this just has been broke for a long long time and either nobody has submitted feedback to Apple or they don't care.

Since BigSur I haven't been able to call a login screensaver.  Works fine on Catalina.  I know the OLED's and LCD's don't burn burn like CRT's and tubers but they are just on (super bright) ALLLLLLL day/night and I just worry about reduced lifespan, and dimming.  The aluminum iMacs I used to get ghosting sometimes if the login window was up too long so I popped em to sleep.

 

Wish apple would fix their stuff :(

mojo21221
Contributor II

We create push a .pkg (folder with some pictures) for our screen saver then run this script to enable the screen saver. 

#!/bin/sh
# Get user logged into console and put into variable "user"
user=`ls -l /dev/console | cut -d " " -f 4`
osMajor=$(sw_vers -productVersion | awk -F"." '{print $2}')
osMinor=$(sw_vers -productVersion | awk -F"." '{print $3}')


sudo -u $user defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver CleanExit -string "YES"
sudo -u $user defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver PrefsVersion -int 100
sudo -u $user defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver showClock -string "YES"
sudo -u $user defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver idleTime -int 900


if [[ $osMajor -eq 14 ]] && [[ $osMinor -ge 2 ]]; then

        sudo -u $user defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver moduleDict -dict moduleName -string "iLifeSlideshows" path -string "/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/PlugIns/iLifeSlideshows.appex" type -int 0

        else

        sudo -u $user defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver moduleDict -dict moduleName -string "iLifeSlideshows" path -string "/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Resources/iLifeSlideshows.saver" type -int 0
fi


sudo -u $user defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver tokenRemovalAction -int 0

sudo -u $user defaults -currentHost write com.apple.ScreenSaverPhotoChooser LastViewedPhotoPath -string ""
sudo -u $user defaults -currentHost write com.apple.ScreenSaverPhotoChooser SelectedFolderPath -string "/Library/Application Support/JAMF/JamfCustomApps/ScreenSaver"
sudo -u $user defaults -currentHost write com.apple.ScreenSaverPhotoChooser SelectedSource -int 3

sudo -u $user defaults -currentHost write com.apple.ScreenSaver.iLifeSlideShows styleKey -string "Classic"

sudo killall -hup cfprefsd

 

Hrm.  I used to run something similar pre-Catalina but Apple changed some stuff and I couldn't get it to work on the login window and wasn't gonna kill myself over it.  I'll give it a test go.  Thanks!