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Shortcut to sleep screen?
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slpdLoad
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Jun 10, 2007, 02:33 PM
 
Line Street Widgetry - Sleep Display Application

You can put that app in the dock or launch it with Quicksilver/Spotlight or whatever. When you run it the screen(s) goes to sleep and will come back with a push of key or mouse click.

There's nothing wrong with sleeping your computer as many times as you want throughout the day. It won't hurt anything.
     
jomama7366
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Jun 10, 2007, 02:42 PM
 
Does anyone know if there's a way to sleep only the screen with a keyboard shortcut or something like that? i know i can set the screen to sleep in the system preferences, but i'm asking if there's a way to make it happen when i want, like how you can set a hotcorner to start a screen saver.

A related question: is it okay to sleep and wake my ibook throughout the day, say 10 times a day? i figured it might be better to just sleep the screen (screen savers still use backlight), hence the above question.

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robert
14" iBook G4, 10.4.9, 640 MB RAM, Airport Express Card
     
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Jun 10, 2007, 03:45 PM
 
Line Street Widgetry - Sleep Display Application

You can put that app in the dock or launch it with Quicksilver/Spotlight or whatever. When you run it the screen(s) goes to sleep and will come back with a push of key or mouse click.

There's nothing wrong with sleeping your computer as many times as you want throughout the day. It won't hurt anything.
     
   
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