OS X: Activate Screensaver from Dock or Icon

Contributor Icon Contributed by David Kirk     
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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.

screensaver_dock_os_x

screensaver_docs_os_x_2

 

1 Comment -


  1. Dan said on July 20, 2009

    In Finder, you can use Shift+Cmd+G and paste in the /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/Versions/A/Resources/ address to quickly get to the correct location, too.

 

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