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wailoon.ho

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Jun 8, 2009
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How to set the screen saver only activate during day time?? Night time screen saver will be deactivated??
 
There may be easier ways to do this, but off the top of my head the way I'd do it is to set up a cron job to modify the Screen Saver preference directly:

Here's the command:
$ defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver idleTime 0

0 will cause the screen saver to never activate. To set the screen saver back to 30 minutes (1800 seconds), use:
$ defaults -currentHost write com.apple.screensaver idleTime 1800
 
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