#Enable screen saver mac install
You can find more information on our install page. If you follow the download link on this site, this is what you'll get. To overcome this, we made a separate Aerial Companion app to bring you auto updates. The sandboxing restrictions make it impossible, as far as I understand, for a screensaver file to auto-update itself, as Aerial did in the past through Sparkle.In older macOS versions, it can be hosted either by System Preferences (for the preference pane) or ScreenSaverEngine.app when running fullscreen. In Catalina, Aerial (like all third party screensavers) is hosted by legacyScreenSaver.appex. If you want to use "Color icons", you will need to setup this additional rule:.You may need to explicitely create the following rule to get it working: Weather : Aerial uses Yahoo Weather's API, and requires access to it.Please note you may also need to create the same rule for More information regarding this issue and other issues with Community Videos can be found here. For Catalina, you'll need to create the following rule : You need to explicitely allow access to for Aerial to work properly. Community videos: Those videos are hosted on GitHub.Usually, downloading videos will be ok with default settings, but you may see issues with : Furthermore, while you may be used to Little Snitch asking you to allow or deny a network connexion, they don't seem to do this for screen savers. Are you using Little Snitch or another firewall ?Īerial requires network access (at least once, after that it can work offline) for it to work, and default Little Snitch settings may impair some or all of it's features.