Screensaver during Keynote

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Screensaver during Keynote

Hi there,
is there a way to enable the screensaver during a keynote presentation? I couldn't find anything in the preferences

thx

mac mini, Mac OS X (10.5.7)

Posted on May 25, 2009 9:19 AM

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Answer 1

Brian Peat

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May 25, 2009 7:12 PM in response to remiboucher

Try checking the option in the Keynote prefs to allow expose and dashboard to work. Then set up a corner hotspot in your screen saver prefs and see if you can trigger it.

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May 26, 2009 1:31 AM in response to remiboucher

I can't get the screen-saver up during a slideshow, not sure if that's the usual experience.

One thing you can do is bring the slideshow into keynote. Sort off, any screen-saver ending in .qtz (turn file extensions viewing on in finder or get info) is a Quartz file which will drop straight into Keynote 🙂. Arabesque that ships with Leopard works, just give it a black background.

Any RSS feed tricks and the like will not work though just you basic and not so basic visualisations. Screen-savers are located in System> Library >Screen Savers Folder, Library >Screen Savers Folder, and ~/Library >Screen Savers Folder.

Also some iTunes visualises can be used but lose there sound reactive capacity.

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remiboucher Author

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May 27, 2009 8:52 AM in response to wideEyedPupil

The thing is that I need to create a kiosk with a mac mini and keynote :
The content is clickable but i would like to get a screensaver that comes after a certain amount of time of inactivity. As I said, the screensavers seems to be disabled during a Keynote (the option to allow exposé/dashboard doesn't affect this issue, and I don't want to have to trigger it with a hot corner).

The screensaver I wanted was simple : a slideshow of pictures. I tried to put the pictures in slides, with a timer on each slide, or creating a quicktime .mov with the pictures, but the problem is that when I set a timer to go back to the first slide, the slideshow doesn't start without clicking (neither the .mov or the timer on the slides...)

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Brian Peat

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May 27, 2009 8:59 AM in response to remiboucher

Have you tried setting the build of the movie to Play Movie and then clicked the more options button to show the build panel where you can set the build to happen after the transition?

I tested this with 2 slides (with a movie on the first one) and it got caught in a loop, but you might want to try it with your whole show and see if it works.

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remiboucher Author

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May 27, 2009 9:43 AM in response to Brian Peat

just tried it, but it doesn't work. the problem comes from the 'restart after inactivity' fonction : the keynote needs to be clicked for it to restart...

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remiboucher Author

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May 27, 2009 9:59 AM in response to remiboucher

I managed to get it to work!!!
I put a black slide before the one with the .mov, with an auto-transition at 0.0 sec. Apparently, this 0.0 seconds manage to work without having to click (which is the case if this first slide is set to auto-change after 1.0sec or more...).

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May 27, 2009 10:09 AM in response to remiboucher

Was going to suggest you loop you movie. Each movie following a time-out (auto-transition after some period of not clicking a hyperlink) on your inactive slides. I know of know way to redirect a slideshow to another slide without a hyperlink click. How are you achieving the loop?

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