Ventura 13.3 broke my screensaver--

This happened once before recently. Any screen saver that shows photos from a folder, while showing them in the tiny preview, just shows a black screen when activated.

I just updated and now no photos show anymore when screen saver is activated.

shortblondeguy wrote:

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Prior to this update, it had been showing on both displays just fine.

When using the Mac alone, the screensaver appears just fine.

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/b2de5d7f-cf84-4202-9da4-8f1990f916f3

Yes, I confirm the same symptoms, and them some.

I am also using Fliqlo version 1.8.5 on my 16" M1 MBP.

External monitors are a Philips PHL223V5, and a Lenovo D22e-20.

Prior to this update, Fliqlo worked just fine on all three displays.

With the external displays disconnected, Fliqlo appears to work as per normal.

With the displays connected, however, Fliqlo only appears on one of them, and never on the main XDR display.

Most occasions, though Fliqlo appears on neither main, nor external display, rendering the whole screensaver pointless.

I have also noted that when Fliqlo does appear on an external display, it is slightly off-centre: That is, it has an alignment issue that cannot be corrected through resolution options.

If I had an inkling this update would f**k-up my screensaver - and likely other features yet to be discovered - I would never have bothered with it.

The borked up screensavers in 13.3 is a known issue. Supposedly they're patching it in 13.4.

https://ko-fi.com/post/PSA-Multi-monitor-support-is-broken-in-macOS-Ven-E1E2JYZAL?fbclid=IwAR1LdjNkVyUZVOIrXhzXv_0MaEeu-tZbUJ7qixHTjAwGX5fT1dVStYOcGSw

kipmanley wrote:

Upgraded last night. Now screen saver won't appear on the main display, just on the extended display. After a while, the words "No Picture" appear on the main display.

Try a SafeBoot How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Nearem wrote:

After updating to Ventura 13.3, my Mac will flicker black twice during startup. Once during the loading bar after the Apple logo appears, and again about 7 seconds after reaching the login screen. Have you experienced this issue as well?

Shutting down and restarting more than once is always advised after any upgrade or update...

If you have an ongoing issue— try reinstalling the macOS on top of the existing macOS

 How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support

razal wrote:

Apple do you read this? So many people are upset about this. Please fix asap.

The only Apple employees who read here are the Hosts and they only do so to make sure that no rules have been broken. They do not read for feedback or suggestions. You can, however, let Apple know your thoughts here:

Product Feedback - Apple

rotorblades wrote:

If you haven't already, report the screensaver issue at:

macOS feedback page: Feedback - macOS - Apple

I don't have this problem but, yes, I agree that people should post feedback. That's why I also included the link to the Feedback page.

OK, this is not an issue for me. Photo Library works - note some users reported the photos showed up "later", probably an indexing process. But I thought I would re-cap a few points about the issue and fixes in 13.4:

• some built-in savers are not affected by this issue (Flurry, Arabesque, Shell), most of them are (photos ones, but also Hello and even Message), the third-party ones differ, probably depending on which "engine" it uses
• the error is manifested either by a blank screen, or inability to load photos, or by showing the same content on all displays where it should be different (i.e. Hello or Message)
• the issue was always intermittent; in 13.3, the failure rate was well above 90%, and in 13.4, it's below 10%

Same here with a 14" MBP M2 2023.

BUT:

• first I tried in a normal way; I selected the pic folder and got nothing after several "Preview" tests
• then I pressed and kept ALT-key down. Because why not. I pressed also "Preview". PICTURES! WOW! But only in a secondary display.

And when I tested preview again without ALT; it showed pictures only every fourth times. 3 out of 4 times were with a black screen.

Then I trashed screensaver preferences from User/Library. And found out that there were some old prefs from iLife hanging around ;-)

Tested with preview; totally random results. First 2 times ok, one no go, then 1 ok, 2 no go etc.

Then I trashed prefs from HD/Library. Same thing

Results; it works randomly in a secondary display about 40% of times. I have not tested by leaving the saver on for a longer time.

I had a similar issue, but in my case, the secondary display stopped showing the screensaver. Note that I had my MacBook Pro disconnected from my dock when I did the Ventura 13.3 update. The next day, I connected my Mac to my dock (which also has my secondary display connected) and noticed the issue. My secondary display eventually just displayed No Photos. I tried restarting my Mac and the first time I initiated the screensaver, the secondary display showed the screensaver, but on subsequent initiations, it did not.

I'm using the Fliqlo screensaver and my LG 24" Ultrafine display set as main screen.

I had set the screensaver to show on both displays. Now it only shows on the built in display, I guess at the size it wants to show it on the larger display?

Prior to this update, it had been showing on both displays just fine.

When using the Mac alone, the screensaver appears just fine.

Yesterday my screensaver worked as expected. Only once. It only worked normally this one time since the Ventura update.

Earlier and later in the day, it had the shown the previously mentioned malfunction. It was not after a boot or in safe mode.

I haven't found a way to make a screensaver work as expected since this Ventura update.

Clearly a problem with the screen saver parameters, while Background and Screens parameters shows the

multiple displays I use, the Screen saver show only one display like if it is ignoring all the displays... and any photos related screen savers won't work.

Nah, still broken... At least with Fliqlo it is. I even reinstalled Fliqlo version 1.8.5, to no avail.

Let me qualify that remark: When one external monitor is connected, Fliqlo appears to work as it should.

When TWO monitors are connected, however, the problem persists.

After updating to Ventura 13.3, my Mac will flicker black twice during startup. Once during the loading bar after the Apple logo appears, and again about 7 seconds after reaching the login screen. Have you experienced this issue as well?