🧠 Known issues:
- 2023-03-30: Screen savers on macOS Ventura 13.3 have problems when used with multiple displays (see https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/727168).
♦️ Warning message inside the preview area of the screen saver in System Settings:
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If you get the message “You cannot use the Emoji Saver screen saver with this version of macOS”. Try the following steps to reinstall:
- Go to “System Settings” → “Screen Saver”, then right click (secondary click, two finger tap) on the installed Emoji Saver and choose “Delete Emoji Saver”.
- Delete all downloaded versions of the Emoji Saver and re-download the most recent version.
- Install the newly downloaded version by double clicking.
- Another way to delete all installed versions is by going to “~/Library/Screen Savers/” and “/Library/Screen Savers/”. You can use “Finder” → “Go” → “Go to Folder…” for this. Then drag all installed versions to the trash and empty the trash.
♦️ In case of a crash at startup of the screen saver, please try the following:
- Go to “~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine.legacyScreenSaver/Data/Library/Preferences/ByHost/” and delete the file that has the format “eu.emojisaver.EmojiSaver.XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX.plist”. You can use “Finder” → “Go” → “Go to Folder…”. Then drag it to the trash and empty the trash. Now restart your Mac.
♦️ Check if you have installed the latest version:
- Go to “System Settings” → “Screen Saver” → “Emoji Saver” → “Options…” → “About…”.
♦️ Using Console.app to show Emoji Saver logging:
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Start the Console.app (e.g. by using Spotlight search). Then search for
subsystem:eu.emojisaver,subsystem:eu.parkbench.emojiand select “Start streaming”. Now activate the screen saver and come back to see the logs. -
Alternatively you can also search for
process:legacyScreenSaver. -
See https://georgegarside.com/blog/macos/sierra-console-private/ and https://superuser.com/a/1532052/104063 for details on making private log data visible.
♦️ Start the screen saver from Terminal:
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Open the Terminal App and enter the following command:
/System/Library/CoreServices/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine
♦️ Disable the update check:
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Open the Terminal App and enter the following command:
defaults -currentHost write ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine.legacyScreenSaver/Data/Library/Preferences/ByHost/eu.emojisaver.EmojiSaver.plist updateCheck -bool NO(Note: Both editions share the same bundle identifier)