OS X screen saver - somewhat off topic

[David Vaughan]

On 28/04/2004, at 10:19, Sarah Reichelt <sarahr at genesearch.com.au> 
wrote:
>
> Thanks to everyone for their suggestions, however none of them will do 
> what I need. Using either AppleScript's quit of the shell's kill (with 
> or without -9) works fine if you have started the screen saver by 
> pushing the mouse into the specified corner. If the screen saver has 
> come on after it's set time, both these methods stop the current 
> screen saver process but another one is immediately started.
>
Sarah

What is the parent process ID of the new process that starts (try ps 
-ajx)? Is it something else you can reasonably kill, so it will not 
spawn further savers?

As an aside, I am wondering if these behaviours are related to a 
problem I have where my Powerbook will occasionally refuse to wake 
properly - the disk sounds are all as usual but the screen never clears 
and the only resort is the reset button.

regards
David
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah