Where is Ventura screen saver on disk?

Ok... I can see the lovely new "Ventura" screen saver in System Settings > Screen Saver


But...


There's no Ventura.saver in /System/Library/Screen Savers (where all the others are stored)


And when I run the following to list all the Screensavers on the system:


tell application "System Events" to set allScreensavers to name of every screen saver


the output is:


{"Random", "Word of the Day", "Arabesque", "Hello", 
"Flurry", "Monterey", "Drift", "Shell", "Album Artwork", 
"FloatingMessage"}


so, again, they're all there except "Ventura".


I also tried a file search for Ventura.saver from the top of the disk, and still nothing.


Where is it?

Mac mini

Posted on Mar 16, 2023 10:36 AM

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Mar 16, 2023 11:11 AM in response to m0thr4

Hmmm... some more digging with the unix "find" command revealed the Ventura screensaver is a special kind of "plugin" under /System/Library/Frameworks/ScreenSaver.framework/PlugIns


In there, you'll find: Computer Name.appex, iLifeSlideshows.appex, legacyScreenSaver.appex, Ventura.appex, legacyScreenSaver-x86_64.appex


These don't seem to be launchable from the command line, and I'm guessing you therefore cannot set or launch them via AppleScript. Certainly not as easily as you can the .saver files.



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