HT204379: Mac Basics: Display a screen saver when you're not using your Mac
Learn about Mac Basics: Display a screen saver when you're not using your Mac
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Jun 12, 2013 10:40 AM in response to bcarltonkby Topher Kessler,Some screen savers have settings options, but others are pretty static in their behaviors. You can see these options by going to the Desktop & Screen Saver system preferences, and then clicking the Screen Saver tab. In here, you will see a number of alternative picture-based screen savers you can try, some of which will not have zooming behaviors. If your current one does have some alternative settings, then you may see a button to adjust these underneath the preview to the right.
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Jun 12, 2013 10:58 AM in response to Topher Kesslerby bcarltonk,Thanks Topher - but I just went thru all 14 screen-savers from "Floating" to "Classic" ...
ALL of them cropped certain photos (choosing to show a close-up section of photos)
and NONE of them had any 'alternative settings' or a 'button to adjust these underneath the preview to the right', as you suggested.
These are just the Slideshows that came within the System Preferences Desktop & Screen Saver panel.
I have not added any program - just want to use this as I have in the past.
... but thanks for trying to help. Hopefully someone else out there has a 'fix' ...
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Jun 12, 2013 11:51 AM in response to bcarltonkby Topher Kessler,The only fix here is to find a third-party screen saver that supports the behavior you want. Apple has adjusted its screen saver options over the years, and the latest ones are what you see in the system preferences.
The only way to change these behaviors is to hack the screen savers. The effects descriptions and some of the behaviors have settings in this folder:
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Slideshows.framework/Versions/A/Resources/Cont ent
There may be a way to modify one of those settings to prevent the zooming for the given set of screen savers (or at least one of them), but I would not recommend modifying these files arbitrarily as you might break something (or at least make sure you have a full and restorable backup you can access before doing so). There are a couple of known modifications to them that can adjust some behaviors, but image zooming isnt one I know of.
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Jul 25, 2014 6:12 AM in response to Topher Kesslerby Dan Vendel,You've probably added the entire Pictures folder as source. Change to merely the iPhoto Library.
However, for many users, it seems as the latter is greyed out and doesn't allow itself to be added.
That, in turn, might be fixed by rebuildning the iPhoto database, etc. Hold down cmnd + opt when launching iPhoto.
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Jul 25, 2014 10:54 AM in response to Dan Vendelby Dan Vendel,Might add: I reverted from Mavericks to Snow Leopard and never succeeded in making the iPhoto Library visible as a choice. But as I also have an old version of Aperture, I simply imported the iPhoto library to that and selected that folder in the screen saver preference pane.
Why Apple won't people use the iPhoto Library, I haven't a clue.....