10.6: Run screen savers on top of the login window

January 12th, 2010

As many people may know, Apple made it all but impossible to run any screen savers on top of the login window (i.e. after some time, a screen saver appears over the login window) in Leopard by tightening up security requirements on processes that can run over the login window via launchd . This made workarounds that worked prior to 10.5 impossible to use. (The only screensaver that I know of that can run behind the login window in 10.5


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