Dimming the screen down will at least completely turn off the illumination, a far cry fromm what most computers will let you do. On Jul 6, 2009, at 5:43 AM, James & Nash wrote:
> Thanks Scott, > > That is a real shame I think. > > Take care > > James > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Scott Howell > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 10:46 AM > Subject: Re: Turning off MacBook screens? > > Screen curtain does not turn the screen off. If you turn the > brightness down as far as it will go, that will help save your > battery, but I do not believe you can turn the screen off entirely- > in other words cut power to it. > On Jul 6, 2009, at 5:38 AM, James & Nash wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Am I corect in thinking that the Linux commandline options will >> work under Mac OS X? If so, if I could find out how to write shell >> scripts or whatever they are called do you think they would work >> under Mac OS X? Also, do the Screen Brightness and Screen Curtain >> options actually turn the screen off? >> >> Take care >> >> james >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Alex Jurgensen >> To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com >> Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 5:22 AM >> Subject: Re: Turning off MacBook screens? >> >> Hi, >> James, >> >> Just continue with Screen Brightness and Screen Curtain together. I >> should write a CLI script for this. >> >> Regards, >> Alex, >> >> >> On 5-Jul-09, at 2:39 PM, James & Nash wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> This might sound like an odd question, but as i cannot see the >>> screen I was wondering if there was a way to turn it off? I know >>> that you can turn the screen brightness right down and use the >>> Screen Curtain which effectively does this which was what I used >>> to do. But I was wondering if there was a solution via the Command >>> Line. In Linux, this can be achieved by something like dpms off. >>> This keeps the screen off until you either use dpms on our restart >>> the pc. >>> >>> I have tried turning off my laptop screen in Windows, and JFW >>> doesn't like it too much. As VO is built directly into the system >>> i assume it doesn't use video intercept but instead gets its >>> access info direct from the Mac OS X kernel? >>> >>> Thanks for any help that you can provide >>> >>> Thank you for taking the time to read this. >>> >>> Take care >>> >>> James >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
