applescriptscreen-sharingscript
Is there a way with an AppleScript or shell script to start the screensaver when you disconnect from a screen sharing session?
For example, I connect via screen sharing from Mac A to Mac B. When I disconnect my remote screen sharing session I would like to start the screen saver on Mac B thus locking that screen.
in Lion this is possible, but don't remember seeing this anywhere in previous versions. When you start a screen sharing session it will ask you how you want to view the remote session.
ssh into the remote Mac and kill the screensharingd daemon.
$ ps ax | grep screen
1234 ?? Ss 0:00.02 /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/screensharingd.bundle/Contents/MacOS/screensharingd
$ sudo kill 1234
It works for me. I have Mac OS X Lion on both local and remote computers.
Best Answer
ScreenSharing will post several distributed notifications during a screen sharing session. It is necessary to listen to those notifications to be able to act on them. I attempted to find a command line executable that is included with Mac OS X to perform this function. Although there is a
notifyutilexecutable in Mac OS X, it does not act as an observer to the NSDistributedNotificationCenter. I also looked at theterminal-notifierproject, but it appears to only post User (GUI) notifications.I've created a Foundation executable that can be run in the background to detect when a screensharing session ends (and start the ScreenSaverEngine as mentioned by @Lauri Ranta above). I have posted the source for this executable on GitHub. You can use Xcode to build the project, and then launch the software as you'd like (via a
launchdjob?)