How to show graphics in screensaver?

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Michael Hoenig

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Message 864872 - Posted: 13 Feb 2009, 1:15:27 UTC

Hi, I am running SETI@home on a multi-core Intel Mac Pro with Leopard. It runs fine and I'm happy to be helping once more. But I have a question. Years ago, when I used to run this on my Windows PC, the screensaver would come on after whatever time, and show the SETI@home graphics. I can't get this behaviour to work on the Mac. I can either hit the Show Graphics button, showing it in a separate window, or I can activate the BOINC screensaver, which seems to show nothing but a BOINC logo... Am I missing something? Is it possible to have the graphics come up automatically when the task begins?

Thanks! Mike
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Message 865002 - Posted: 13 Feb 2009, 12:19:48 UTC - in response to Message 864872.  

I have a dual quad core Mac Pro also. My screen saver work fine. Are you running the newest BOINC software? I had this problem a year or so ago but they fixed it with an update to the SETI client.
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Message 865033 - Posted: 13 Feb 2009, 14:24:35 UTC

I believe that only the "standard" SETI application has the screensaver. The Alex V8 optimized app doesn't have a screensaver, but runs around twice as fast as the standard app.

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