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Display Sleep: scriptable?
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Stradlater
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Dec 5, 2002, 02:00 PM
 
I have a new flatscreen iMac, and every night before I goto bed, I have to open the EnergySaver preferencePane and set the display sleep to 1 minute, and then when I wake up, set the display sleep to 1 hour again. I need my HD awake all the time (so my webserver runs and my alarm clock application wakes me up), so this is how I go about sleeping the display before I do. I was wondering if there's any faster way to ONLY sleep the display, whether through AppleScript or a shell script, or some other way (I tried tapping the power button, but that sleeps the HD as well)

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-stradlater
     
saltines17
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Dec 5, 2002, 03:48 PM
 
I have this exact same setup (well, with an older G4, but use it as my alarm etc) and have been trying to find this out forever... hopefully someone will finally find a solution this time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
   
 
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