On the off chance that your Mac’s screensaver freezes, moving your mouse cursor around or hitting keys on the console won’t influence it to leave. The mouse cursor will show up on the screen and you can freely move it around, however the screensaver will at present show.
The console and mouse will even now work, implying that on the off chance that you click your mouse or sort on your console while your screensaver is solidified, your Mac will in any case enlist it. Besides, your Mac may likewise never go to into rest mode along these lines and will stay on until the point that you can settle the issue and return to the work area.
We’re not precisely beyond any doubt why it happens, but rather it’s a known reoccurring issue. I’ve by and by witnessed it on my MacBook like clockwork or somewhere in the vicinity, however there are two or three fixes that you can experiment with.
- To start with you’ll have to Force Quit the Preview App, in light of the fact that since it’s solidified you won’t have the capacity to get to it’s menus to close it down. You can Force Quit the Preview App by tapping on the Apple symbol in the upper left of your screen, clicking “Power Quit” from the dropdown menu, and choosing Preview from the rundown of running applications.
- Next, open a Terminal window. You can find the Terminal App in Finder, under Applications – > Utilities.
- Sort in the accompanying commands, to change to Preview’s library folder and delete the substance of the folder.
cd ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State
cd com.apple.Preview.savedState
rm - rf *
Use Terminal to Unfreeze Screen and Finder
Presenting this commands in Terminal, to clean Finder’s store and doing support errands with Onyx a short time later, explained it for all time for me:
rm - fR ~/Library/Saved\ Application\ State/com.apple.finder.savedState ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.finder; killall Finder
mv ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.finder{,.backup}.plist; killall Finder
Other individuals simply type the command “killall dock” to murder the dock when the issue shows up. Be that as it may, they report the bug imitates some time later. Thus, it’s astonishing to need to state this in such a costly machine yet… good fortunes with it!
The most effortless approach to get a spotless work area for screen captures on Mac OS X is to make a shiny new client record and sign in as a fresh out of the box new client. Be that as it may, on the off chance that you have to utilize your own client represent whatever reason and you have an untidy work area as I do, you can utilize Screenshot Helper to conceal the genuine work area keeping in mind the end goal to take clean screen captures.
Support numerous screens.
Utilize the Preferences board to change the shading or the work area picture.
Move – drag the window to snap to the edge of screen.
- Press command – B to appear/shroud the menu bar and the dock.
- Press command – U to appear/shroud the mouse cursor.
- Press command – E to cover the whole screen.
- Press command – D to cover the work area symbols as it were.
You can likewise make the whole screen solid dark, white, red, green, or blue to check dead or stuck pixels on your LCD screen, or for a blue or green screen chroma key.
Reset the NVRAM
The main snappy, perpetual arrangement that I’ve seen settle this issue is resetting the NVRAM (non-unstable arbitrary access memory). It stores different OS X information like speaker volume, mouse and trackpad settings, and screen determination.
Now and again the NVRAM can end up tainted, which could cause an issue this way. Gratefully, you can without much of a stretch reset it. Remember, however, that this will reset things like speaker volume, mouse settings, date and time, and other little things like that.
To reset the NVRAM, begin by totally closing down your Mac. Next, press the power catch to turn on your Mac, and instantly press Cmd+Opt+P+R on your console. Continue holding those keys down until the point when you here the startup toll for the second time. From that point, let go and let your Mac boot up as typical.