danco;502289 Wrote: > OK. Run Caffeine (so it is in your menu bar - you could have it run at > login) and then to turn it on or off you need a shell script that calls > an Applescript. > > The shell script needed is > > #! /bin/bash > osascript -e 'tell application "Caffeine" to turn on' > > > This can be written in any convenient text editor. But you need to make > sure that the quotes are not smart quotes, and that the text is saved as > plain text not rich text (and that line endings are Unix endings, which > is usually automatic). > > Once the script has been saved, you need to make it open with Terminal > (easy by using Get Info from the Finder). > > And then you need to make it executable. To do that, open Terminal, > type > > chmod a+x (and a space) and then drag the file into the Terminal > window. By a bit of Mac magic this automatically types in the full path > to the file, so you don't need to type it manually. > Press return, and the file should now be executable by anyone. You can > check this by double-clicking and seeing what happens. > > Similar shell script to turn Caffeine off. > > The first line of the shell script just identifies what shell you are > using. Then the osascript command is an instruction to run an > Applescript. the -e flag says that the bit between quotes is the text of > one line of an Applescript. If you had a two-line Applescript you would > need to write osascript -e 'line1' -e 'line2' and so on for more lines. > For a long Applescript, one would do best to save it as a script file, > and call it by osascript scriptfile. > > Ask me if you need more help. I'm by no means an expert as regards > Applescript, but short scripts are usually easy to write and understand.
Experiencing the same sleep problems with OSX 10.6.2 and SBS while players are active, I am trying out your solution - many thanks for the detailed help. But I cannot see an option to run a script with svsPowerCtrl when players become idle. The only options under Idle Player Monitor are to shutdown, restart, suspend, hibernate etc. I have installed the beta version as recommended for SBS 7.4.1. What am I missing!? -- nonnoroger ------------------------------------------------------------------------ nonnoroger's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=35581 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
