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Message 5009 - Posted: 14 Jul 2006, 23:26:59 UTC

I am running BOINC Manager 5.4.9 on an Intel Mac with 10.4.7. The only project I am running is Einstein@home.

Does the BOINC Manager prevent my machine from sleeping? Is it supposed to? Does the screensaver?

The BOINC screensaver seems to actually activate BOINC if BOINC Manager is not running. Is this behavior documented?

I had gotten the impression that the application needed to already be running in the background for the screensaver to display anything. Do I actually need to be running the BOINC Manager for anything? I pretty much only want BOINC running when I am away from the machine, anyway, and the screensaver seems a more elegent way to accomplish this than having the Manager running all the time.
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Message 5012 - Posted: 15 Jul 2006, 0:34:48 UTC

The BOINC screensaver seems to actually activate BOINC if BOINC Manager is not running. Is this behavior documented?

This is normal behaviour for all BOINC versions with a screen saver option. yes, the screen saver will activate BOINC, if you set the screen saver to be BOINC and BOINC isn't running.
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