The videos are stunning, and make an excellent montage when you aren’t using your desktop or MacBook. It’s terrific that an enterprising developer has created a way to enjoy these screensavers on the Mac desktop. Because of this, you’ll see some network traffic if you choose to enable the screensaver. The videos appear to stream from Apple’s site instead of being bundled with the screensaver, probably to avoid copyright infringement and keep the file size reasonable. Once installed and enabled, you can choose which videos to show and which to disable.Īll told, there are 34 different videos from China, Hawaii, New York, London, and San Francisco. It’s not signed by an identified developer, so you’ll have to allow the installation in Security & Privacy. All you have to is install the screensaver and then choose it in System Preferences > Desktop & Screen Saver > Screen Saver. Mac macOS 10.Coates’ screensaver, called Aerial, is available for free from the developer’s Github repository. Guess I need to pay forever too support it. Turned out I broke everything since it broke the notarized binary. Yesterday I thought it would be a good idea to clean up my certificates under developer.apple. As far as I know that format is still not documented to this day nor available to 3rd parties. Some (not all) of Apple screensavers are now bundled as an.

a screen saver is not an app (we are a plugin run by legacyScreenSaver) we can’t ask for entitlements for, say, accessing filesystem. Your cache may be wiped by the Catalina installer But Aerial cannot download videos to this cache. Aerial can still read (only) the rest of your system disk so you can still store the videos in another folder after they are downloaded by manually setting the Cache.

As of right now there are no workarounds for many of the restrictions.Īerial can only write in the legacyScreenSaver.appex sandbox container, which means in Catalina, JSON files and videos can only be downloaded in ~/Library/Containers/.legacyScreenSaver/Data/Library/Application Support/Aerial. In macOS Catalina, 3rd party screensavers are now running in a sandboxed container which limits everything.

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