SaverDesktop for Mac

Name: SaverDesktop
Rating: 4 (1 reviews)
Author: Gregory Weston

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By Gregory Weston

run a screen saver on your desktop without the normal limitations

Some, but not all, people know that Mac OS X has the ability to run screen savers on the user's desktop although it'Ã??Ã¢?Â¢s not a publicized or particularly supported behavior. It also has some quirks. I created SaverDesktop as an adjunct to a screen saver module I was working on to work around the following shortcomings of the stock tool:

Launching the built-in mechanism by hand requires typing in a lengthy path pointing into /System, which is AppleÃ??Ã??Ã??Ã?Â¢Ã??Ã¢??Ã??Ã¢?Â¬Ã??Ã¢??Ã??Ã¢?Â¢s playground (and thus subject to change).
A double-clickable, universal AppleScript that invokes that tool (to avoid the typing) consumes more disk space than SaverDesktop.
The built in screen saver engine has an inconvenient habit of quitting - even when running in background mode - if the user reconfigures the screen saver or moves their mouse to the Ã??Ã??Ã??Ã?Â¢Ã??Ã¢??Ã??Ã¢?Â¬Ã??Ã¢??Ã??Ã??DisableÃ??Ã??Ã??Ã?Â¢Ã??Ã¢??Ã??Ã¢?Â¬Ã??Ã¢??Ã??? hot corner.