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I disable Automatic graphics switching under Energy Saver, as it significantly slows my Macbook Pro (10.15.5). Yet this checkbox keeps getting re-enabled when I have not touched it!

How can I prevent that? Or failing that, how can I disable this from the command line? (I'll write a script to run every ten minutes.)

Energy Saver,

Joshua Fox
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Use this script to turn off the Energy Saver Automatic graphic switching option.

  • Save it on your Macbook, e.g., as noautosaver.
  • Make it executable with chmod a+x noautosaver.
  • Add the script in System Preferences > Login Items.

It is the same code as in the linked question, but always turns the value Off rather than toggling the value.

 #!/usr/bin/osascript

if running of application "System Preferences" then
     try
         quit application "System Preferences"
     on error
         do shell script "killall 'System Preferences'"
     end try
 end if


repeat while running of application "System Preferences" is true
     delay 0.1
 end repeat


tell application "System Preferences"
     reveal pane id "com.apple.preference.energysaver"
     repeat until exists window "Energy Saver"
         delay 0.1
     end repeat
 end tell


tell application "System Events" to tell ¬
     group 1 of window "Energy Saver" of application process "System Preferences"
     repeat until exists checkbox "Automatic graphics switching"
         delay 0.1
     end repeat


 set cbAGS to (value of checkbox "Automatic graphics switching") as boolean
 if cbAGS then
    click checkbox "Automatic graphics switching"
 end if
 set  cbAGS to (value of checkbox "Automatic graphics switching") as boolean



end tell


quit application "System Preferences"


if cbAGS then
     return "   Automatic Graphics Switching is: ON"
 else
     return "   Automatic Graphics Switching is: OFF"
 end if
Joshua Fox
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