[stuffedmonkey]

I realize this might be an absolutely retarted question, but here goes anyway:

I just got my first lcd ever - a surplus 17" ADC display that my work was selling for 150$ new in the friggen box. It replaced a 15 year old beige apple 21" crt that i had picked up at a yard sale a few years back - one that the focus was never quite perfect. I totally love it - but I can't figure out one thing.

I need to be able to turn the monitor off without sleeping the machine. I saw the prefrence to disable the power button entirely. I have also set the monitor to fade out after 15 min in energy saver. I want to be able just to turn off the thing at the power button and leave the mac running - is there some hack to reprogram the power button to do this?


Thanks!

[Superchicken]

For that on my PB I just turn the brightness down... dono if you can do that with that display though...

[hakstooy]

On ACDs the brightness does not lower to an essentially dark screen like a PB, its still pretty damn bright when on the lowest setting. Kind of comparable to a PB screen on 80% or so.

I dunno how you could do that other than have the energy saver "display sleep" setting at a very short amount of time.

I don't know of any setting you can change, but maybe there is a software option out there. Some little app or widget that allows you to click a button to sleep the monitor.

Additionally, you could set the screen saver to nothing and utilize a hot corner so that you can automatically activate it whenever you want. That way it could be dark or swirly or whatever you want.

[ReggieX]

Do you need it to be actually Off, or is sleep OK? The latter is better for the monitor.

[Link]

Just set the display sleep to a lower number. It'd be AWESOME if the power button did something and it really makes me mad they didn't bother fixing this until the DVI models, but meh oh well..