MacOs X Lion screen saver

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Peter Hayes
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22 Jul 2011 15:26:10 UTC
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    Seems to be difficult to get out of the Boinc screen saver after upgrading to Lion on a macBook. Once I used brute force and power cycled the next I waited patiently hitting the return key till I got the password prompt. Anyone else seeing this?

    PeteH

    Richard Haselgrove
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    MacOs X Lion screen saver

    22 Jul 2011 15:40:29 UTC
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      Charlie Fenton, Mac developer for BOINC, has already noticed that:

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      It seems to work correctly under OS 10/7 lion in my tests so far. The only problem I have seen is that the screen saver is very slow to close when you move the mouse, click the mouse or press a key.

      I will look into that issue in the next few days.

      Cheers,
      --Charlie


      That was yesterday. He was writing about the new version in (early) testing, but I guess whatever he finds will apply to earlier versions too.

      Peter Hayes
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      Seems like you can type the

      22 Jul 2011 17:15:57 UTC
      Message 106156 in response to message 106155
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        Seems like you can type the password even if the password screen isn't shown and it lets you in.

        PeteH

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