JohnCoates / Aerial

Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for Mac
MIT License
20.77k stars 1.05k forks source link

Unable to Uninstall from MacOS 14 #1317

Closed andrewbcoyle closed 1 year ago

andrewbcoyle commented 1 year ago

Required information

In order to help us sort your issue, we ask that you provide the following information:

Description of issue / Feature request

Cannot uninstall screen saver. Moving Aerial Companion to trash does not uninstall, nor does manually removing files here: https://github.com/JohnCoates/Aerial/issues/1036

Screen saver options still appear in system preferences, and a background process called "Legacy Screen Saver (Wallpaper)" runs in the background nonstop requiring a force quit to temporarily stop.

glouel commented 1 year ago

@andrewbcoyle the way macOS applications work, trashing the app doesn't delete the support files, yes.

To fully cleanup, under Sonoma, you have to manually remove those files you pointed at, and delete the screen saver itself, which is again a separate macOS file, you can do that by right clicking where the red arrow is here :

Capture d’écran 2023-08-22 à 03 57 13

Note however that the part where I put a large green mark is part of macOS 14 and not Aerial.