Mac OS X Public Beta — Screen Locker for English Language version

Mac OS X Public Beta version (OSXPB) has a ScreenSaver facility, activated by the System Preferences application.  Apple's screen saver code includes an implementation of screen locking, but the English version of the System Preferences ScreenSaver bundle does not make provision for accessing this.  (Strangely, other language versions do!)

This package contains a modified interface for the English language Screensaver bundle, which makes it easy for English-speaking users of OSXPB to use the screen locking feature.

CONTENTS

	README.rtf		this file
	install		installation script
	ScreenSaverPref.nib	modified interface bundle

INSTALLATION

You need super-user permissions to install this bundle.

If you're happy to use a command-line interface, you can do it while logged in as any admin user.  If not, and you have the OpenUp application to open the downloaded tarball, you can follow the second set of instructions.

If you don't have OpenUp, you can get it from Softrak:
     http://softrak.stepwise.com/Apps/WebObjects/Softrak

A)  Command-line installation:

1. 	Click on Terminal.app (should be in the Utilities folder in your Applications folder) to open up a command line interface.  In the instructions below, the '# ' stands for your prompt; you should type in whatever follows it.  <return> means press the Return key.

2a.	If you don't have OpenUp, type
# cd
	(without pressing <return>) then use the Finder to find the folder where your tarball has been downloaded, and drop that folder on the Terminal window. Click in the Terminal window, and press <return>.
	Now type
# tar -zxf ScreenLockerNib-xpb.tar.gz <return>
# cd ScreenLockerNib <return>

2b.	If you do have OpenUp, open the tarball by dropping it on OpenUp. Return to your Terminal window, type
# cd
	(without pressing <return>) then use the Finder to find the ScreenLockerNib folder created by OpenUp, and drop that folder on the Terminal window. Click in the Terminal window, and press <return>.

3.	Start a super-user shell by typing
# su <return>
	and then type the super-user (root) password at the prompt.  (This is the password you gave when you created the first admin user during your OSXPB installation).

4.	Make sure System Preferences is not running.

5.	Type
# sh install <return>

6.	The installation should be complete!  (If not, and you don't understand the error message you got, or how to fix the problem, mail me and I'll try to help).

7.	Type
# exit <return>
	to finish your super-user session.  You can now quit Terminal and try out the screen locking feature of ScreenSaver.

B)  Installation without command-line:

1.	Log out, and log in as "root" (without the quotes).  root's password will be the password you gave when you created the first user during your OSXPB installation.

2.	Find your downloaded tarball, and drop it on OpenUp.

3.	OpenUp will create a folder called ScreenLockerNib.  Find that folder, (if you haven't set OpenUp's preference for a target directory, it will be in Library/OpenUp in the Home folder) and find the file within it called "install".  Drop this file on Terminal while pressing cmd-opt.

4.	Terminal should create a window containing messages from the installation script.  The installation should be complete!  (If not, and you don't understand the error message you got, or how to fix the problem, mail me and I'll try to help).

5.	Log out, and log back in as yourself.  You can now try out the screen locking feature of ScreenSaver.

Enjoy!  

2000/10/12 Mike Elston <mde@mac.com>