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Any way to prevent the screen from dimming while idle?
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nickw311
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Nov 15, 2007, 01:26 PM
 
Is there anyway in Tiger to prevent the screen on a Macbook from dimming while idle? It does it after about 5 minutes of being "idle."

The reason I want to know this is because sometimes I watch long-ish flash videos on google videos and youtube and the screen always dims in the middle of it and I then have to move the mouse.
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dm294
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Nov 15, 2007, 02:11 PM
 
I'm having the same problem with my Macbook Pro. My Macbook never did this. Under energy settings, I set how long it should wait before the screen went to sleep. The Macbook would always go dim just a little before whatever time I set this for. But the MBP seems to go dark after about 4 or 5 minutes regardless of this setting. I'm not sure what's going on.
     
nickw311  (op)
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Nov 15, 2007, 02:14 PM
 
Yeah that is whats happening. It has always done it for me. I recently updated to Tiger but this happened in Leopard also.
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Nov 15, 2007, 06:14 PM
 
System Preferences>Energy Saver>Options

     
   
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