How can I disable animated screen savers which are beautiful but distracting?

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How can I disable animated screen savers which are beautiful but distracting?

I agree that the motion animated wallpapers and screen savers are quite beautiful and captivating.

But that is a problem. My personal macbook will start animating to the right of my work macbook and I find it distracting.

I can't seem to find a way to just tell it to use a static image. The settings offer to use the screensaver video which is animated also as wallpaper. But I want the reverse. Use my wallpaper as the screen saver. Beautiful and static. Not captivating and distracting.

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 13.0

Posted on Oct 6, 2023 4:12 PM

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Answer 1

dialabrain

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Nov 30, 2023 10:19 AM in response to luluhall2023

luluhall2023 wrote:

Only if you're still using a CRT monitor. Image persistence was an issue back in the Dark Ages. Static image screen savers on modern Macintosh displays do not cause image persistence.

Just to add, do an online search for "image persistance mac"

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dialabrain

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Oct 6, 2023 4:15 PM in response to Traveler42

I would suggest you use something other than an animated screen saver.

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dialabrain

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Oct 6, 2023 4:19 PM in response to Traveler42

Just to add, using a static image as a screen saver defeats the purpose of using one at all. It's a great way to cause image persistence.

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Old Toad

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Oct 6, 2023 4:45 PM in response to Traveler42

Give the Brooklyn screensaver a try: It's a free, open source screensaver.

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Nov 30, 2023 10:06 AM in response to dialabrain

Only if you're still using a CRT monitor. Image persistence was an issue back in the Dark Ages. Static image screen savers on modern Macintosh displays do not cause image persistence.

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