screen saver/energy preferences

[randomlinh]

does anyone know where this is stored on the system? I'm not talking about the system preferences pane, but where it might be keeping it's settings in the file system.

 

[PCTC2]

/Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist

 

[randomlinh]

are there any other places where screen saver/power management might be defined?

 

[PCTC2]

What setting are you looking for exactly? That would help a lot more. Just look through the /Library for the plist you need.

 

[randomlinh]

anything that would remotely deal with the screen saver settings, the password settings for coming back from screensaver/sleep, sleep settings (system and monitor)...

I'm trying to figure out why it won't listen to my settings. Trying to pinpoint if it's a hackintosh issue or not. it was working fine, didn't work, worked, didn't work.... all w/o any system updates of any sort. my cloned copy works too.

all this on top of my real imac not going to sleep at all. found out if i left firefox open, it would never go to sleep. i have no idea why it started doing that.

 

[PCTC2]

Sounds more like a Hackintosh Issue, but look where I said. /Library/Preferences/ and /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration.

Also, I can't say about Firefox. None of the 280+ Macs I work on are set to sleep, ever. We're working on a power management plan to put them to sleep at 12:00am and wake them up by WOL around 6am. Firefox may just have something that keeps the Mac active enough to not sleep it.