Screen saver

Starts the screen saver on your Mac. Choose from the Landscape, Cityscape, Underwater, Earth, or other options in System Settings and trigger it using this.

Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Screen%20saver
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Screen%20saver
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Screen saver” end tell

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