#Aerial mac os screensaver install
#Aerial mac os screensaver zip file
#Aerial mac os screensaver update
#Aerial mac os screensaver password
#Aerial mac os screensaver zip

It's recommended to check if you have an Aerial.saver file in /Library/Screen Savers/.

#Aerial mac os screensaver password

Installing a screen saver for all users requires an administrator password at install, and at each subsequent update, defeating the purpose of an auto-updater.

#Aerial mac os screensaver install

This tool only installs/updates Aerial if you install it for your user only, and not for all users.

Once installed, quit Aerial Companion again by clicking Quit at the bottom of the menu.

When you want to check for an update, launch Aerial.app from your /Applications folder and click Check Now from the menubar icon.

Simply quit Aerial Companion by clicking Quit at the bottom of the menu.

This will then quit Aerial Companion and you are all set!.

Open the menu one last time and select Launch > In the background (no menu).

Change your Check Every settings to Hourly, Daily, or Weekly.

#Aerial mac os screensaver update

If you want to update in the background and hide the status icon: I don't want yet ANOTHER icon on my status bar!Дo not fear! After installing Aerial Companion you can do the following:

You will always be able to manually download and install Aerial from its Github repository.

As pointed out in Aerial's installation instructions, you can also use homebrew to install and/or update Aerial automatically.

Do I have to use this? Is there an alternative? If and only if everything checks out, then Aerial.saver gets copied to ~/Library/Screen Savers/.

Aerial.saver is verified (using macOS codesigning) to be signed/notarized with my Developer Apple ID.

Aerial.saver is verified (using macOS codesigning) to be using the correct Bundle ID ().

#Aerial mac os screensaver zip

The zip is unzipped in place, looking for Aerial.saver.

The sha256 of the file is computed, and compared to the one from the manifest.

#Aerial mac os screensaver zip file

The zip file is downloaded to ~/Library/Application Support/AerialUpdater/.

Aerial Companion uses the version number from the manifest to infer the download link from Aerial's repository (the download links are always of the same format, so version 1.9.2 will be available at ).

When you decide to perform an update, the following happens Periodically, Aerial Companion checks the manifest to see if a new version was released. This is generated after Aerial gets notarized for distribution and before I upload a new version on Aerial's releases page. In this repository, I store a manifest file that contains the version number of the latest release, and also the sha256 of the releases. Stay up to date with either stable releases or beta updates. Run the companion app in the foreground from your menubar, or in the background without any effort from you. Choose whether it checks for an update hourly, daily, weekly, or only when you want to update manually.

How does it work?Дuring your first launch you will be able to set up Aerial Companion to keep you up to date the way that you want. Due to this, Sparkle was removed from Aerial starting in version 2.0.0 and native support was added using Aerial Companion. This issue seem to trigger a lot more often in macOS 11 (Big Sur). While this worked most of the time, for some users, the update check caused the ScreenSaverEngine to lose the keyboard/mouse focus, and pressing a key would no longer let you exit the screen saver (pressing cmd-alt-shift-esc could be used as a workaround). A temporary workaround was put in place in version 1.8.0 where you could get notified of a new version but not automatically install. With the introduction of macOS 10.15 (Catalina), things changed for screen savers and Aerial was no longer able to update itself because of the new security restrictions introduced with sandboxing.

I thought Aerial had auto-updates with Sparkle?ДЄerial used to automatically update (since version 1.5.0) using the Sparkle framework.

To uninstall the Aerial screen saver, please follow the directions here.

To uninstall the Aerial Companion App simply delete Aerial.app from your Applications folder.

Once copied, double click to launch Aerial.app in your Applications FolderДЄerial will be installed if this is your first time, or prompt you to update to the latest version!

Unzip and copy AerialUpdater.app to /Applications.

Previously called AerialUpdater Installation This utility will install the Aerial screensaver and keep you up to date! It takes care of install, automatic updates and more. The official companion app for the Aerial screen saver for macOS.