Any terminal commands to allow certain apps to over ride screen saver?

I have always wondered if there are any terminal commands to over ride the screen saver when certain programs are running, such as slide shows and the current iTunes 10?

Those commands would just change various preferences settings. You might take a look at Caffeine.

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Hi
I have my security settings setup so that everytime my iMac goes into screen saver mode it asks for login password. Recently I have noticed that if I leave the computer unattended for a long period of time (a few hours) and come back, the mail app opens up. If I just go away for a few minutes and come back the problem does not occur.
Since I am not using the mail app and have not set it up, the setup account window is the one to come up.
I have checked the Login Items under Accounts in System Preferences and it's not there. I have also right clicked the icon in the dock and checked if it was set to start up automatically - it isn't.
I have read online this maybe has something to do with email alerts from iCal but I have not set up iCal to send email, nor do I know where I can disable that type of feature. This is happening even when iCal is closed and I have no events for that day. I've looked around in the prefrences of iCal and disabled any option that has something to do with email but it still happens.
The next logical step was to check Activity Monitor to try and see what started a process. You see I am originally a Windows user and have recently converted my OS religion. Back in Windows when something like this happened I had many tools that could tell me what started the application and even it's command line. But with the Mac all i have is the activity monitor and I'm still not familiar. I have clicked the process and then inspect, the parent process indicated launchd, pressing that lead me to another inspector window still without much info.
How can I solve this, it is becoming rather annoying?
Also does anyone know a better process monitor for mac? or how to use top on the terminal to get the information I need?
Please help a confused new mac user!
Thanks

So I've tried both of the tips you gave my guys, but non of them works
But I've found out something. When I switch to different space (in spaces), than drop some file and then try to switch back to my mail space, there are 2 possibilities how to do it. First - I just move mouse to the space to where I want to switch, wait for a second and it switch automatically or I can move mouse to the space where I want to switch and than press spacebar to make it faster.
The strange thing with opening app from dock happens just when I press the spacebar.
And question for your other answer - yes, it happens just with apps in my dock.
It is so uncomfortable...
EDIT: few days ago I've run OnyX (which was probably mistake) and this happens probably since than. I used it because Snow Leopard got little bit slower so I wanted to clean it... It might be because of that.
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Automatic Refreshing of App after switch off screen saver

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Since I turned off my screen saver, my MBP screen turn black after few minutes of no activity. Everytime I active back my MBP by touching track pad, press key board, the apps that were running previously gone. It seems MBP restarted by itself.
My MacBook Pro on Power Adapter.
I had look Energy Saver settings. And I have no check mark on these settings:
- Put hard disks to sleep when possible
- Wake for network access
Does someone has similar situation?
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it seems that the proximity sensor is disabled when you completely disable the auto-lock function of the phone.
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Gbu.

You could delete the plists for the things that control those options. The system will then recreate the default plists. plists are preference list files stored in you user/Library/Preferences folder or in the main /Library/Preferences folders. Most can just be deleted without problems; however, some contain setup information (like Mail's) that is difficult to recreate, so moving the plist first so you can restore it if everything goes wonky.
For Finder windows, there is a hidden .DS_Store file that keeps the window settings for each folder. I'm sure I've seen a command to hunt down and delete all of those files.

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Without knowing what you do, what software is running concurrently, I can't say. But here's some things that may help you. They are a little technical:
About OS X Memory Management and Usage
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Is there any Terminal Command to hide Scrollbar Slider completely?

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I need to get rid of it, do not need it.
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You could delete the plists for the things that control those options. The system will then recreate the default plists. plists are preference list files stored in you user/Library/Preferences folder or in the main /Library/Preferences folders. Most can just be deleted without problems; however, some contain setup information (like Mail's) that is difficult to recreate, so moving the plist first so you can restore it if everything goes wonky.
For Finder windows, there is a hidden .DS_Store file that keeps the window settings for each folder. I'm sure I've seen a command to hunt down and delete all of those files.

Every time I sync with iTunes, certain apps copy over

Every time I plug my new iPhone 5s (7.01) into my MacBook to sync with iTunes 11.1, the Pages app starts to copy itself from iTunes to the iPhone. However, it's already installed on the iPhone. Upon every sync, it copies over again and again... this is a pain since it takes a long time to sync now because of this.
Actually, this was also happening with Numbers, Keynote, iPhoto and iMovie, but I totally removed these. Pages will be the next to go if I can't get this sorted out.
I've been syncing iOS devices with iTunes for years and have never seen something like this before.
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msteinny,
So i went to the apple store to meet with an apple genius to ask him why my phone's time kept moving up 1 hour everytime I synced my phone. Well he said that he's never seen this problem before, and after a trying a reset and restore he let me exchange my phone. The problem is that when I went to sync my new phone the problem still persisted. They told me it was probably something to do with my computer and its time zone settings.
So I get home and click on my computers clock in the bottom right hand corner to bring up the date and time properties and sure enought my time is correct, the date is correct and the time zone is correct (Eastern Daylight Time). So I look through the different tabs (Date & Time, Time Zone, Internet Time). The first thing I tried to do was to change where my computer syncs its internet time. It was originaly set on NIST time. I then switched it to Windows time, but this didn't do anything. My clock would still change when I synced to itunes. The next thing I tried was fideling around in the Time Zone tabs. I noticed that the box that says "Automatically adjust clock for daylight savings" was unchecked, so I checked it and my computer's time jumped an hour ahead. So I left the box checked but moved my clock one hour back (to the correct time), clicked on apply and left it at that. I synced my iPhone and voila! The time didn't change! It stayed on the correct time! To to make a long story short, make sure that you computer's clock is set on "automatically adjust clock for daylight savings changes, make sure your time zone is correct, and that the time is right when that box is checked. I hope this helps you. I'm glad I got a new phone out of the deal;)
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My mac screen is glitching up showing pixels of other open apps all over the screen very often, and my internet browsers, (all of them) are sporadically flashing black and dissapearing.. whats happening!?

My macbook pro screen has been glitching out for minutes at a time very frequently and its making work VERY PAINFUL. My screen will flash pixels of currently running apps, my dock, internet browser window, and tons of other blobs in betweenheres an exmaple.. Please help me quickly..
Also, my internet browser will go either all white, black or clear for very long moments.. HEELLPPPP
NOT A RETINA DISPLAY MAC... LATE 2009 VERSION
And while im here, does anyone know why my sd card slot wont recognize and why my headphone jack REPEATIDLY turns on the red light after i unplug headphones. I know how to corect it but EVERY TIME. its a major inconvienience to have to switch the switch, q-tip clean it and blow it every time.

This is a long shot but I would suspect there is something wrong with your graphics card / GPU. There was a problem with some Macbook Pro's which used the Nvida GeForce 8600 GT but these were ones built around 2007 / 2008.
It might be worth checking what card you have and to check the serial number just in case as it might be covered - my graphics went in my 2007 MBP when I was outside warranty and Apple fixed it for free.

Terminal command to reactivate mail activity wheel

Does anyone know a terminal command that allows you to view once again the activity wheel(s) next to the inbox/accounts, when checking mail? The mail activity indicator window on the bottom left is not really enough, and often shows no activity for few/small emails.
IMHO, it's unfortunate Mail shows you very little about its activity (without having to open the separate activity window).

They were there in Lion (you didn't need to enable them). They've been removed in Mountain Lion.
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Terminal Commands for Identifying Apps as 32-Bit, 64-Bit, or Both

I posted a prior topic on this matter, but cannot find it. I have seen these what I am asking about, but can't locate them. I am trying to identify the terminal commands noted in my subject.
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This is what I was looking for:
In terminal, type: file /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
What is returned is below. The second/third line identifies Safari as a universal binary with two architectures. The fourth/fifth line identifies the architectures as 32 bit and 64 bit. I am not sure what the sixth/seventh line does unless it identifies Safari as being compatible with PowerPC.
xxxx-MacBook-Pro:~ donv1$ file /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari
/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari: Mach-O universal binary with 2
architectures
/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari (for architecture x86_64):
Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64
/Applications/Safari.app/Contents/MacOS/Safari (for architecture i386): Mach-O
executable i386
For any wondering. If SL is started in 64-bit kernel mode, then it will run Safari as a 64-bit program. The same will happen if SL is started in 32-bit mode. Leopard also will run Safari as a 64-bit program. Suppose one has a purely 64-bit program. The same things will happen. Note also that some 32-bit programs will run in 64-bit mode, and, at least in some cases, they will run faster in 64-bit mode. On the other hand, some 32-bit programs will not run in 64-bit mode.
Thus, at this time, the benefits from being able to start in 64-bit mode are minimal. That is, one might be able to run some 32-bit programs slightly faster than in 32-bit mode. On the other hand, this minor benefit would, IMO, be offset by not being able to run certain 32-bit or 64-bit programs simultaneously. I'll be sticking with 32-bit mode.
If there currently is more to the story than I have told, then please pile on. I am always interested in avoiding misinformation.
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Is this open for development / access to, api?
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