Comments on: Toggle screensaver password applescript

By: John

John — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:01:38 +0000

Script still works in Lion 10.7! Just assigned a keyboard maestro shortcut to it so I don’t launch it from launchbar anymore

By: phriedrich

phriedrich — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 16:38:45 +0000

Great script, thanks.

If you only change the lock setting and leave the rest untouched, it also won’t ask for your password:

set properties to {require password to wake:true}

and

set properties to {require password to wake:false}

If the preference pane is open, the change will not shown immediately, but it still works and after closing and re-opening the preferences the value is shown correctly

By: Brannan Holland

Brannan Holland — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 05:49:43 +0000

I renamed “AppleScript – SSPass” to “password” and it worked great with growl

By: Andreas Kalt

Andreas Kalt — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 20:09:04 +0000

I first didn't get Growl to work either. Turned out that displaying the script in the browser window there is a problem with the character encoding so that a dash gets turned into some garbled characters.See line towards the bottom:

notify with name "Screensaver Setting" title "Screensaver Setting" description "Passwords have been " & response & "!" application name "AppleScript â€“ SSPass"

That â€ after AppleScript should be a dash –Fixing that fixed the whole thing. Works fine now on Snow Leopard.

By: John

John — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:41:31 +0000

Getting this in my log when I goto run it, Growl 1.2.1

21/08/10 6:34:17 AM com.apple.coreservicesd[57] NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
21/08/10 6:34:17 AM com.apple.coreservicesd[57] NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
21/08/10 6:34:18 AM com.apple.coreservicesd[57] NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
21/08/10 6:34:18 AM com.apple.coreservicesd[57] NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
21/08/10 6:34:18 AM System Preferences[521] .scriptSuite warning for result type of command ‘timedLoad’ in suite ‘SystemPreferences’: the type NSNumber (‘long’) doesn’t match the result Apple event code (‘doub’).
21/08/10 6:34:19 AM com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.netauth.sysagent[463]) Exited with exit code: 255
21/08/10 6:38:41 AM com.apple.coreservicesd[57] NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.
21/08/10 6:38:41 AM com.apple.coreservicesd[57] NOTE: Using non-mach-based version of client -> server communication, via direct function calls.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:57:32 +0000

Strange! The only thing I can suggest is trying to remove the AppleScript – SSPass from the Growl pref pane, then running the script again.

Apart from that, I can only suggest looking for errors in the console or seeing if there’s any info on the Growl forums.

By: John

John — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 10:39:26 +0000

script definately works, and growl is definately installed. in the growl pref pane I can see AppleScript- SSPass. runs with no errors. bizzare.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:40:37 +0000

Still works fine for me on my Snow Leopard installation.

If you open the script in script editor and run it do you get any errors?
Just to make sure – you’re on Snow Leopard and have Growl installed!

By: John

John — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:30:17 +0000

just grabbed the SL script and can’t get growl to work either. any advice?

By: eN0ch

eN0ch — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:28:23 +0000

Fantastic – thanks a heap for this .. But just one prob – I’m not getting the growl notification. (I do have Growl running and many other notifications work fine.)

macbook2.16G / 10.6.4. Can anyone help? Thanks.