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Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ?

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JiPaul <blanc@empty.org> wrote:
> Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
>> Great! You should clean it up and post it for anyone else who wants to
>> do something like this. : ) 
> 
> Actually I've had some problem with it. I think it's no ok killing
> cfprefsd agent when the screensaver is activ or when the monitor is
> sleeping.
> So I know how to detect that the ScSav is activ. But how could I know
> (by script of course) that the monitor is sleeping ? Have you an idea ?

I've used this command to see if the screen is asleep:

ioreg -n IODisplayWrangler | grep -i IOPowerManagement | perl -pe
's/^.*DevicePowerState\"=([0-9]+).*$/\1/'

If it returns 0, the screen is sleeping. 

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[Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? blanc@empty.org (JiPaul) - 2015-09-25 09:45 +0200
  Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-25 15:30 +0000
    Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? blanc@empty.org (JiPaul) - 2015-09-25 19:49 +0200
      Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-25 18:37 +0000
        Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? blanc@empty.org (JiPaul) - 2015-09-26 00:06 +0200
          Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-09-25 22:47 +0000
            Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? blanc@empty.org (JiPaul) - 2015-10-07 09:56 +0200
              Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-10-07 16:20 +0000
                Re: [Applescript/shell script] how could I change the images folder of the screen saver ? blanc@empty.org (JiPaul) - 2015-10-07 21:15 +0200

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