Of course, this Terminal command works with any screensaver, whether it’s one that comes with your Mac out of the box, or a third-party screensaver you’ve downloaded and set up on your Mac. It’s free to download and comes with a variety of different watch faces to choose from. We covered this screensaver a while ago – my screensaver is an animation created by Ramus Neilson called WatchOSX based off of the Apple Watch face and it keeps time accordingly. When you quit the Terminal app, or use the Control + C keyboard combination, the wallpaper will return to its normal wallpaper image. System/Library/Frameworks/amework/Resources/ScreenSaverEngine.app/Contents/MacOS/ScreenSaverEngine -backgroundĢ) Keep the Terminal app running for as long as you want this screensaver to remain on your Desktop as the wallpaper. Having said that, here are the steps to set your screensaver as your wallpaper (as temporary as it may be):ġ) Launch the Terminal app on your Mac and enter the following command, then press the Return key on your keyboard to activate the command: This does mean the change isn’t permanent, but it’s still a cool thing to do and can help you keep the screen’s pixels moving for the most part while you’re idle without having your Mac go full-screen with the screensaver instead. Setting your screensaver as your Mac’s wallpaperįrom the Terminal app, you can use a command to set your Mac’s current screensaver as the wallpaper for as long as the Terminal app is running the command. In this short and easy tutorial, we’ll show you exactly how that’s done. Using just your Terminal app that comes pre-installed in macOS and a special command, it’s possible to set your favorite Mac screensaver as your wallpaper for a temporary period of time. Anyone who said you had to deal with a boring still wallpaper on your Mac was crazy well… kind of.