Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

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CHAPTER 4 SYSTEM PREFERENCES
Figure 4-5. The Screen Saver tab of the Desktop & Screen Saver preference pane
NOTE Certain computers, particularly laptops, will power down the screen after a certain
amount of idle time. If this time is shorter than the screen saver start time, then the screen
saver will never start. If this is the case, you will receive a warning to this effect in the Screen
Saver preference pane, along with a link to the Energy Saver preference pane, where you can
control the sleep setting.
Following are some other screen saver options:
Use random screen saver: This option will randomly choose a screen saver module when
the screen saver starts.
Show with clock: This will provide an overlay that presents the current time over the
screen saver.
Hot Corners: This button will bring up the Hot Corner dialog, which allows you to assign
certain functions to occur when the mouse cursor is moved into one of the corners of your
screen. Two of the available options are Start Screen Saver and Disable Screen Saver
(which will prevent the screen saver from starting if the mouse cursor is in the selected
corner).
While the screen saver modules included in Leopard are nice, there are tons of third-party
screen savers also available for download (try www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/icons_
screensavers/). To install a new screen saver, just download the screen saver file and then doubleclick
it. This will bring up a dialog box asking if you’d like to install the screen saver for just
yourself or for all the users of your computer. If you select the option for just you, the screen
saver file will be installed in ~/Library/Screen Savers/; if you choose to install it for everyone, it
will be installed in /Library/Screen Savers/.