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Purchased an M1 Mac Mini. Running it headless. In the OS for my user, I have the screen saver set to "never." However, when I connect via remote desktop, the screen saver comes on after some period of time.
Where is the plist or setting to completely disable the screen saver for remote desktop sessions?
I found the following code in a file I didn't open for a long time. It enables Remote Login on a remote device. Save the script somewhere (from now on referred to as /path/to/script/). Copy the script to the other device.
tell application "System Preferences" to set current pane to pane "com.apple.preferences.sharing"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
click checkbox 1 of row 6 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of group 1 of window "Sharing"
end tell
This enables remote login. Now, to disable remote management and enable screen sharing, use the same script, but remove the 3rd line and add these 2 lines:
tell application "System Preferences" to set current pane to pane "com.apple.preferences.sharing"
tell application "System Events" to tell process "System Preferences"
click checkbox 1 of row 7 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of group 1 of window "Sharing"
click checkbox 1 of row 2 of table 1 of scroll area 1 of group 1 of window "Sharing"
end tell
To copy this script on the remote device, use scp (secure copy). To use scp type
scp /path/to/script username@IP.of.other.device:/some/path
OR
scp username@hostnameOfDevice:/some/path/
The second option (using the device hostname) requires that the devices are on a computer-to-computer network, so it will not work on a normal wifi network. You will see a prompt requesting the password of username. When you type the password, you will not see any text appear (obviously to prevent people from seeing the password).
Once it is copied, remotely log into the device:
ssh username@IP.of.other.device
OR
ssh username@hostnameOfDevice
Again, the use of the hostname requires computer-to-computer network. Once logged in, run the script using osascript /some/path/theScript.scpt (remember that using scp we copied the script to /some/path, this will be different on your device). This will disable remote management and enable screen sharing.
Good luck!
Does it do it when the screen sleeps, or when the computer sleeps?
If only when the computer does, then set System Prefs > Energy Saver - Computer Sleep to never & Display Sleep to whatever you like.
You can then test using System Prefs > Desktop & Screensaver > Hot Corners & assign one corner to put the display to sleep.
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I think I found the solution. I noticed an energy saver plist with a UID appended to it.
In addition to the default
Reading the default plist with my correct system settings gave me
Reading the plist with the UID gave me
So I added the
"System Sleep Timer" = 0 and "Display Sleep Timer" 0by the following linesp.