Not to mention these options are wonderful if you are a partial with light sensative eyes. Before I got my Macbook Pro, if I had a headache, I couldn't do homework because all my homework was on my gateway, and the bright screen of my gateway would make my headaches worse. When I got my macbook pro, I could work even when I had a headache. I even had instances where I shook off my head pains after a couple hours of writing up estronomy problem sets etc.
Justin On Jul 6, 2009, at 10:17 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > Of course don't forget you can turn off the backlight for the > keyboard on the MacBook Pro as well. There is an option in System > Preferences under Keyboard for this and it is to disable keyboard > backlight. Illuminate keyboard in low light conditions and > unchecking as far as I know will disable this feature. > On Jul 6, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Justin Harford wrote: > >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
