{"id":803,"date":"2025-09-30T08:53:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T08:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/?p=803"},"modified":"2025-11-26T10:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T10:36:34","slug":"how-to-prevent-screensavers-from-appearing-when-youre-away-from-a-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/how-to-prevent-screensavers-from-appearing-when-youre-away-from-a-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"How to prevent Screensavers from appearing when you’re away from a mac"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve set my Mac to display screensavers after 5 minutes of inactivity. We know there’s a ‘caffeinate<\/strong>‘ command to prevent my Mac from going to sleep.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this case, sometimes we just want to be away from my Mac to make coffee, make a phone call, or whatever, and it’s only for a short time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I use Caffeinate in Mac OS Terminal (Applications > Utilities > Terminal) to prevent my Mac from displaying screensavers when needed. The command I use is ‘caffeinate -t \u200b\u200b1800’. What does this command mean? -t means time in seconds, the command keeps your Mac awake for the specified duration, 1800 is equal of thirty minutes (1800 seconds\/60 seconds=30).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

However, I noticed that when I returned, my Mac was displaying the screensaver even though the caffeinate command above was still running in the Mac OS Terminal. Very strange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then I changed the command above to ‘caffeinate -d’. This command is caffeinate -d: prevents only the display from sleeping. Voila, it worked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

So, use this command if you only want to prevent screensavers from appearing when you’ve only been away for a few minutes and the Mac is doing something you don’t want the screensavers to disturb.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To turn off the above command, press Control + C in the active terminal window below the caffeinate command above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Note: I’m using Mac OS Sequoia when writing this blog.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve set my Mac to display screensavers after 5 minutes of inactivity. We know there’s a ‘caffeinate‘ command to prevent my Mac from going to sleep. In this case, sometimes we just want to be away from my Mac to make coffee, make a phone call, or whatever, and it’s only for a short time. 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