OS X: Activate Screensaver from Dock or Icon

Contributed by davak February 23, 2007  
Tagged: Apple Mac

As I cannot get used to the active screen corners, this tip will show how to activate the screensaver from an icon either in your dock or your desktop.

OS X is well known for screensaver eye candy. Although many people use active screen corners to start their screensaver, I would just rather click an icon and go.

Here is how to start the screensaver from an icon:

1. Open a Finder Window
2. Navigate to the following area:

/System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/

3. Drag ScreenSaverEngine.app to the dock or desktop
4. Click the created icon to start the screensaver

Here are a couple of flickr screenshots showing dragging the icon into the dock.