Panoptes

Panoptes is a mac screensaver that rotates through a set of webpages. It's ideal for displaying status or system monitoring dashboards as your screensaver.

Installation

Install from the homebrew tap:

~ % brew tap jamesdobson/panoptes
~ % brew cask install panoptes

Configuration

Panoptes currently supports configuration via the command line.

Configuring from the CLI

Panoptes can be configured from the command line.

List of URLs

Get the List of URLs like this:

~ % defaults read ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine.legacyScreenSaver/Data/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.softwarepunk.Panoptes urls
(
    "https://www.apple.com"
)
~ %

Set the list of URLs:

~ % defaults write ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine.legacyScreenSaver/Data/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.softwarepunk.Panoptes urls -array "https://www.apple.com" "https://www.google.com"
~ %

Rotation Interval

The rotation interval is the time, in seconds, to display a URL before switching to a new URL.

Get it like this:

~ % defaults read ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine.legacyScreenSaver/Data/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.softwarepunk.Panoptes intervalSecs
60
~ %

Set it like this:

~ % defaults write ~/Library/Containers/com.apple.ScreenSaver.Engine.legacyScreenSaver/Data/Library/Preferences/ByHost/com.softwarepunk.Panoptes intervalSecs -float 30.0
~ %

License

Licensed under the MIT license.