Guillaume Louel
Guillaume Louel
What a mess. So as far as I can tell, we still don't get killed if I remove the exit() call. ``` 2025-07-23 18:26:42.447 : 🖼️ 📢📢📢 willStop 2025-07-23 18:26:42.447...
Ok let's kill the hopeful part of the weird, I think this is just because my attempts at tearing down on my own were a *bit* too good, it's still...
Ok good news, the 2 second delay seems to work perfectly. ``` par défaut 19:15:37.401387+0200 legacyScreenSaver Aerial: 🖼️ 📢📢📢 willStop par défaut 19:15:37.401902+0200 legacyScreenSaver Aerial: 🖼️ ⏱️ Setting up 2-second...
> Great work! - Seems like a decent workaround. I wonder if 2.0 seconds is the "right" delay - too long and a person might launch the screensaver again (e.g....
> We don't call exit(0), but do tear down all resources and stop animation. Yeah in that case it 100% stack an instance. It's not that terrible if you teardown...
Ok tiny update, I've started working on the ScreenSaverMinimal base code (https://github.com/AerialScreensaver/ScreenSaverMinimal) to try and narrow down some of the issues. I've added some instance count tracking to know how...
Still digging but found this which I think confirm the é&@-é&@^rpé" of the situation : ``` par défaut 15:19:09.509004+0200 WallpaperAgent A85D5DF3: BEGIN - makeWallpaper for '[screenSaver] /Users/guillaume/Library/Screen Savers/ScreenSaverMinimal.saver' par défaut...
Floating Message and Random are still .saver, in '/System/Library/Screen Savers' I didn't see anything in the Info.plist but maybe you'll see something.
I'm going to assume you mean on your desktop via Aerial Companion, right ? So yes, but not here. In Companion, click the little chevron down, and pick the screen...
> Sorry no I need to rewrite my request. Aerial has taken over my desktop completely. I’m unable to have a desktop image. It’s forcing me to use its videos....