OS-X Sonoma and the einstein@home screen saver

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Stephen Hawkins
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28 Sep 2023 0:13:15 UTC
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    I installed Sonoma on my M1 Mac-mini.  I installed Sonoma this morning and it defaults to an Apple screen saver.  Way down at the bottom of the choices is the Boinc screen saver.  Sonoma and the screen saver do not get along.   The boinc logo bounces around jittering like crazy near the bottom but telling you it is starting the screen saver.  That never happens until you click on the logo then you see the rotating Star Sphere but it flashes on and off.  Once I got that far I could not get out of it.  I ended up holding the cntrl alt del keys down and got a window allowing me to restart the computer.

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    Stephen Hawkins
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    Does anyone else have this

    14 Oct 2023 8:50:18 UTC
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      Does anyone else have this problem?

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      Richard Haselgrove
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      The developers know about

      14 Oct 2023 10:22:09 UTC
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        The developers know about this and are working on a fix.

        See: BOINC website, news section

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        BOINC client [and manager]

        30 Oct 2023 8:35:24 UTC
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          BOINC client [and manager] 7.24.2 released for Mac

          It's not perfect - still won't display any project graphics - but at least it shouldn't lock you out of the computer.

          Stephen Hawkins
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          I am at OS-X 14.1.1   The

          14 Nov 2023 12:40:59 UTC
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            I am at OS-X 14.1.1   The BOINC screen saver is no longer a choice.

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            Stephen Hawkins
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            Updated to OS-X 14.2.1 The

            25 Dec 2023 14:13:58 UTC
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              Updated to OS-X 14.2.1 The Boinc screen saver is still no longer one of the options.

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              Eric Belove
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              Just installed BOINC 7.23.3

              10 Feb 2024 16:49:18 UTC
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                Just installed BOINC 7.23.3 on my Mac-Mini running Sonoma 14.2.1 and BOINC. Einstein@home runs in the background but BOINC is still not a choice in the screensaver tab in system settings. Anybody else having this problem?

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                I installed BOINC 7.24.3 on

                17 Feb 2024 16:01:39 UTC
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                  I installed BOINC 7.24.3 on my Mac-Mini running Sonoma 14.2.1 and BOINC with Einstein@home runs in the background but BOINC is still not a choice in the screensaver tab in system settings

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                  Eric Belove wrote: I

                  17 Feb 2024 16:19:52 UTC
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                    Eric Belove wrote:

                    I installed BOINC 7.24.3 on my Mac-Mini running Sonoma 14.2.1 and BOINC with Einstein@home runs in the background but BOINC is still not a choice in the screensaver tab in system settings



                    this is a BOINC issue. nothing to do with this project.

                    make an issue about it here: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc

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