Article:		Using Python and AppleScript Together
Subject:		AppleScript limitations
Date:		2007-05-10 10:14:50
From:		salamon
AppleScript has a number of limitations when run remotely, via the command line. For example, I logged into my home machine and tried the sleep command and here's what I got: Ripley:~ andrew$ osascript -e 'tell app "Finder" to sleep' kCGErrorRangeCheck : Window Server communications from outside of session allowed for root and console user only INIT_Processeses(), could not establish the default connection to the WindowServer.Abort trap If i try to run it as root, as the error message suggests, I get: 21:26: execution error: Finder got an error: Application isn't running. (-600) I get the same errors when running your python version. There is a small app called SleepNow (see http://sleepnow.darwinports.com/) that will work under those conditions.

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• AppleScript limitations
  2007-05-10 10:26:37  Noah Gift | [View]
  
  
  There is actually a sneeky little way around this. The apple mail program will let you execute applescript on the receipt of a certain type of mail message that you define.
  
  You could always craft a very comprehensive filter that accepts only email messages from a certain address with a certain keyphrase in the the subject line. You could then trigger the sleep code...
  
  One other thing that works remotely as root:
  
  killall loginwindow
  
  This will immediately log you out. Be kind with this command!