Ventura 13.3 broke my screensaver--
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.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 13.3
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.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 13.3
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
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?
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
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.
Same here! I have two monitors using the Classic screensaver and up until the 13.3 upgrade I would see photos on both screens. Now just the right screen shows a photo. I can occasionally see photos on the left screen when I trigger the screen saver manually but it is rare.
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.
I should add:
Screen Saver works properly the first time it's summoned after a startup or reboot. Every subsequent attempt to run it results in proper behavior on the extended monitor, black screen on the main monitor, and after a bit the words "No Photos" (not No Picture, sorry) appear in white in the middle and sit there, unmoving. Which is not the best failure mode for a screensaver, I gotta say.
Tried this, same result. When using screensaver with photos, the screen is black. Have also tried restarting the mac several times, but no dice on this. Screen is black when screensaver is on and this came after the update I installed yesterday.
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.
NEVER had this issue before update to 13.3
Same issue as everyone else with duel monitor, right screen shows photos, left screen eventually shows "NO PHOTOS"
Anymore every update is wack a mole, fix one issue, 3 new ones show up... what happened to Apple?????
Using photos it is broken. No photos on built in display. If I use a standard (none photo) screensaver it works on both monitors.
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.
Thanks, @Jdubbs123. I confirmed this a bit ago. I was using the Ken Burns effect with my source as a personal folder of photos. The standard screensavers work as expected.
Glad it's not just me. The screensaver I'm running is one I wrote, Folder Crazy (it's on armpitstudios dot com). Now that I'm on 13.3, it stopped running on the main screen (Studio Display), and usually works on display 2 (Thunderbolt Display), but not always.
I added some more logging to my code. The initWithFrame:isPreview: method is usually called for both screens, but sometimes not 1. But startAnimation is now never called for screen 1.
I wonder if they only broke legacy screensavers (those that run in the process called legacyScreenSaver).
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.
+1
I'm on a Mac Studio with a Studio Display and 2 other monitors connected.
On Studio Display the screensaver is gone, on the 2 other monitors it works properly.
I already started in Safe Mode, but it's usless, so don't loose your time this way.
Ventura 13.3 broke my screensaver--