- #SLEEPWATCHER MAC RUN WHEN IDLE FOR MAC#
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#SLEEPWATCHER MAC RUN WHEN IDLE INSTALL#
On a Mac, any screen saver can be made to run as a wallpaper with just one line of code.įirst, you have to download and install the Google Featured Photos Screen Saver. You may be wondering why my title says “wallpaper” but then links to a “Screen Saver” app.
#SLEEPWATCHER MAC RUN WHEN IDLE FOR MAC#
But a few months ago, Google released a nifty app for Mac called Google Featured Photos. Google selects some of these best photos to create brilliant slideshows.įor a long time, this was exclusive to ChromeCast user. While most users default to Facebook to post photos, a lot of photographers use Google+ to publish their work. Backdrop allows the Chromecast to display a slideshow of beautiful photos when it’s idle. If you’re a Chromecast user, you may be familiar with Chromecast Backdrop.
Well, what if I told you that I got my Mac greet me with a brand new, high resolution wallpaper every time I flip it open? And setting new wallpaper manually is tiresome. The default wallpapers on the Mac gets boring after a few weeks. The way to produce the same result in Automator, is pictured below, but doesn't have the option of of repeating every x number of minutes, but hopefully the picture shows the workflow steps needed to duplicate the above script.Let’s face it. Which you can right click and view the package contents, which will have a proper "ist" file, and an ".icns" icon file that you can change to your own custom icons, along with other options to grow and develop the application.
#SLEEPWATCHER MAC RUN WHEN IDLE FULL#
The good thing about going the stay open application route, is that you have a full standalone application package. In the example code above, if you click the "Cancel" button while picking from the list, this returns a "false" boolean value, so the idle handler returns 1 second, which means the choose from list dialog box will display immediately.īut if you choose one of the options from the list, the idle handler will return a value of 1800 seconds, which is the equivalent of the 30 minute you desired, but can be set to any value you want. This will create the stay open AppleScript application, if you double click this application as usual, it will run like any other application, except the idle handler will repeat with the returned number of seconds. Then you need to click the "File Format:" combo box near the bottom, and select the "Application" option, and then also select the "Stay open after run handler" option box. To save it as a stay open application, go to the "File" menu in Script Editor, and then click the "Save" menu item.Īnd the usual file save dialog box will be displayed, so give your application a name, I called mine "Shell Runner". You will also notice that it will run only once in the Script Editor application, this is because for the idle handler to function, the script needs to be saved as a stay open application, only then will the idle handler repeat with the desired return value, which is the number of seconds between repeat runs of the application. If you copy and paste this code into a new "Script Editor" file and click the run button, you will see how it works. If button returned of quitApplication is "Yes" then Set commandVariable to choose from list default button "Yes"
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