- Introduction
- Understanding System Preferences
- Viewing System Preferences
- Locking and Unlocking Preference Settings
- Changing Appearance Options
- Setting Up the Desktop
- Setting Up Screen Savers
- Setting the Date and Time
- Changing Language Options
- Changing Text Substitution Options
- Saving Energy and Managing Power
- Selecting a Startup Disk
- Changing the Way a CD or DVD Starts
- Controlling Sound
- Dictating Your Speech
- Letting Mac Do the Talking
- Setting Accessibility Options
- Having VoiceOver Read from the Screen
- Setting VoiceOver Preferences
- Using VoiceOver Commands
- Setting Ink Preferences
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
Setting Up Screen Savers
In the past, you needed a screen saver (a continually moving display) to protect your monitor from screen burn in. With new technology, those days are gone. Screen savers are more for entertainment than anything else. When you leave your computer idle for a specified wait time, a screen saver displays a continuous scene, such as an aquarium, until you move your mouse to stop it. If a security option is set in the Security & Privacy pane in System Preferences, your computer requires a password when you wake from a screen saver. You can select a slide show (New!) or screen saver (New!) from the ones provided with OS X, such as Sliding panels or Photo Wall, or select a source, such as National Geographic (New!) or a folder on your computer with pictures (all saved in the same format). With iTunes Artwork, you can turn screen saver into a jukebox; just click an album. With iPhoto, you can use onscreen controls to pause or flip through photos in an album.
Set Up a Screen Saver
Click the System Preferences icon in the Dock, and then click the Desktop & Screen Saver icon.
Click the Screen Saver tab.
Click a slideshow or screen saver.- Select Random to use different screen savers each time.
Select from the available options (New!) for the selected item:- Click the Source pop-up, select a default source or Choose Folder, and then select one.
- Select the Shuffle slide order check box to shuffle order.
- Click Screen Saver Options, select the option you want, and then click OK.
Click the Start after pop-up, and then select a time when the screen saver starts or Never.
Select the Show with clock check box to show the clock.
To activate the screen saver with your mouse pointer, click Hot Corners, specify the options you want in the corner you want it, and then click OK.
Click the Close button.
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