> On Apr 19, 2025, at 4:53 AM, Gabriel Zachmann via Cocoa-dev
> <cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com> wrote:
>
>
>>
>> The only thing I can think of is that, if legacyScreenSaver is still running
>> an old instance of your screensaver (which you've learned can now happen),
>> it is somehow caching the special screensaver defaults objects and values,
>> so it doesn't read from disk the next time you invoke it. Here's what you
>> should try:
>>
>> 1. Make sure legacyScreenSaver is not running in Activity Monitor. Quit/kill
>> it if it is.
>> 2. Open the System Prefs and change your screensaver's prefs.
>> 3. Run it to see if the changes are kept.
>
>
> I think that's it.
> I tried your experiment and i think it proves that there are other instances
> of my screensaver running.
>
> Is there an easy way to check, if other instances are still running?
Check the output in these terminal commands
top
pidof
pidof p_name | tr ' ' '\n’
awk
ps -ef | awk '$8=="name_of_process" {print $2}
pgrep
pgrep myNameHere
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