![]() On the other hand, ps and kill are nice and simple. Probably the best thing to do is to use the killall command. ![]() This can be made fancier: other hints/forum threads have talked about combining this with grepping for the name of the command you want to kill. For example, run ps (or ps -awx) to find the process number of the desktop background screen saver, then kill that process. Since the command in this hint is run in the background (with the ampersand at the end of the command line) it will not be hit by control-C. This tip was mentioned by Ken Dyke at last night's BANG meeting.Ĭontrol-C only kills processes that are in the foreground in the terminal. You can hit Control-C (in the Terminal window to terminate the program. ![]() Performance was not good on my 16 MB card. System/Library/Frameworks/amework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -background &Whichever screensaver you've chosen in System Preferences now appears on the desktop, under your windows and icons! This feature is Jaguar only, and requires a video card capable of running Quartz Extreme (32 MB recommended).
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