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How to Wake a Monitor with AppleScript?
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May 30, 2002, 11:02 PM
 
Like the subject says, how do I wake the monitor using AppleScript? Is it possible? In either OS 9 or X

I run an overnight AppleScript job that involves taking a lot of screen snapshots, however if the monitor is asleep, the snapshots are just black. So I've got to tell the energy saver to NEVER sleep the monitor.

I'd like to be able to sleep the monitor, but have the AppleScript wake it up when it needs to take a screen snapshot.

Either OS 9 or OS X methods would work with this script, as it uses both the OS 9 and X Finder dictionaries already (yes, I did manage to make this possible by hacking an old version of the OS 9 finder so that I can run it at the same time as the OS X Finder).
     
   
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