Blank screen screen saver?

[Michael]

Is there a way to get a blank screen as the screen saver in 10.9.5?

I can get all sorts of pictures.
I can get a message on a black screen with an apple logo
Can I get just plain "black"?


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Re: Blank screen screen saver?

[Macs R We]

Why don't you just set energy saver to put your display to sleep? That's black.



> On Nov 23, 2014, at 1:02 AM, Michael  wrote:
> 
> Is there a way to get a blank screen as the screen saver in 10.9.5?
> 
> I can get all sorts of pictures.
> I can get a message on a black screen with an apple logo
> Can I get just plain "black"?
> 
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Re: Blank screen screen saver?

[Michael]

On 2014-11-23, at 12:16 AM, Macs R We  wrote:

> Why don't you just set energy saver to put your display to sleep? That's 
> black.

Not for my external display. I get a bright blue screen, and "No Input" flowing 
across it.

Additionally, during the daytime, I might want the screen to go black if I'm 
not using it, but not turn off -- turning off kills color accuracy for about 20 
minutes.

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Re: Blank screen screen saver?

[Michael]

On 2014-11-23, at 7:45 AM, Andrew Brown  wrote:

> Why not make a large black image and set that as the source of the screen 
> saver ? -- AB

... that is so simple that even a child could think of it. Where's my inner 
child?
Thank you

>> On 23 nov. 2014, at 16:35, Michael  wrote:
>> 
>> On 2014-11-23, at 12:16 AM, Macs R We  wrote:
>> 
>>> Why don't you just set energy saver to put your display to sleep? That's 
>>> black.
>> 
>> Not for my external display. I get a bright blue screen, and "No Input" 
>> flowing across it.
>> 
>> Additionally, during the daytime, I might want the screen to go black if I'm 
>> not using it, but not turn off -- turning off kills color accuracy for about 
>> 20 minutes.
> 

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Re: Blank screen screen saver?

[David Patrick Henderson]

On 23 Nov 2014, at 07:35, Michael  wrote:

> 
> On 2014-11-23, at 12:16 AM, Macs R We  wrote:
> 
>> Why don't you just set energy saver to put your display to sleep? That's 
>> black.
> 
> Not for my external display. I get a bright blue screen, and "No Input" 
> flowing across it.
> 
I would check your monitor’s onboard settings. It should go into standby mode 
when not receiving input.

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Re: Blank screen screen saver?

[Michael]

On 2014-11-23, at 12:16 AM, Macs R We  wrote:
>> 
>>> Why don't you just set energy saver to put your display to sleep? That's 
>>> black.
>> 
>> Not for my external display. I get a bright blue screen, and "No Input" 
>> flowing across it.
>> 
> I would check your monitor’s onboard settings. It should go into standby mode 
> when not receiving input.

It "should", but i've gone over everything I can adjust. No such setting.

(It's an HDMI Tv, and after reporting issues to Apple, they have concluded it 
doesn't even support EID which lets the computer know when it's the same 
monitor -- so the computer keeps assuming "new TV, use the default settings".)

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Re: Blank screen screen saver?

[LuKreme]

On Nov 23, 2014, at 8:35 AM, Michael  wrote:
> 
> Not for my external display. I get a bright blue screen, and "No Input" 
> flowing across it.
> 
> Additionally, during the daytime, I might want the screen to go black if I'm 
> not using it, but not turn off -- turning off kills color accuracy for about 
> 20 minutes.

That sounds like a terrible display.

Any monitor made int he also decade should be able to go into a low-power 
standby mode when it is not getting input.

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Re: Blank screen screen saver?

[LuKreme]

On Nov 24, 2014, at 6:33 PM, LuKreme  wrote:
> int he also decade

in the last decade…

Sigh.

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Re: Blank screen screen saver?

[Michael_google gmail_Gersten]

Alright, does anyone know how to get the screen saver to just put up the
image, and not do anything? I see fairly high energy usage in Activity
Monitor when the screen saver goes active, and I finally realized that
between zooming in, or scrolling the pictures, or other things, screen
saver is not just idle.

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Re: Blank screen screen saver?

[LuKreme]

On Dec 7, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten  
wrote:
> 
> Alright, does anyone know how to get the screen saver to just put up the 
> image, and not do anything? I see fairly high energy usage in Activity 
> Monitor when the screen saver goes active, and I finally realized that 
> between zooming in, or scrolling the pictures, or other things, screen saver 
> is not just idle.

Well, right, obviously it’s not idle. The whole point of the screensaver is to 
draw pretty pictures on the screen to prevent burn-in. Burn-in isn’t a problem 
anymore, but people got used to screensaver and want more and more flying 
toasters, metaphorically.

If you want the screen to be idle, but the screen to sleep. The EASIEST way is 
to simply hit control-shift-eject.

You can also set a hot corner if you like.


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Re: Blank screen screen saver?

[Arno Hautala]

So, if I understand everything that's been said:

The goal is to get a black screen when not in use.
Energy saver can't be used because, instead of going black, the screen
goes blue like a TV from the 80s.
The screen can't be turned off because that kills color accuracy for
20 minutes. The color accuracy issue is probably why it isn't set to
turn power down the screen like other monitors.
A black image can't be selected for the screen saver because that
image is still zoomed and panned by the screen saver leading to
undesired cycles being wasted.

You could put a black image full screen manually, but then you
wouldn't be able to lock the screen.

The Apple logo is probably your best bet, short of putting together
your own with Quartz Composer. Tutorials and examples are pretty
plentiful.


On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 12:01 AM, LuKreme  wrote:
> On Dec 7, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten 
>  wrote:
>>
>> Alright, does anyone know how to get the screen saver to just put up the 
>> image, and not do anything? I see fairly high energy usage in Activity 
>> Monitor when the screen saver goes active, and I finally realized that 
>> between zooming in, or scrolling the pictures, or other things, screen saver 
>> is not just idle.
>
> Well, right, obviously it’s not idle. The whole point of the screensaver is 
> to draw pretty pictures on the screen to prevent burn-in. Burn-in isn’t a 
> problem anymore, but people got used to screensaver and want more and more 
> flying toasters, metaphorically.
>
> If you want the screen to be idle, but the screen to sleep. The EASIEST way 
> is to simply hit control-shift-eject.
>
> You can also set a hot corner if you like.
>
>
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Re: Blank screen screen saver?

[Michael]

> So, if I understand everything that's been said:

Yep.
Perfect.

> The goal is to get a black screen when not in use.
> Energy saver can't be used because, instead of going black, the screen
> goes blue like a TV from the 80s.
> The screen can't be turned off because that kills color accuracy for
> 20 minutes. The color accuracy issue is probably why it isn't set to
> turn power down the screen like other monitors.
> A black image can't be selected for the screen saver because that
> image is still zoomed and panned by the screen saver leading to
> undesired cycles being wasted.

More like: Undesired energy / heat. I have spare CPU cycles going unused almost 
all the time. I'm trying to avoid wasting energy, and extra CPU triggers fan 
noise. Battery life is secondary (this laptop spends 95% of it's time plugged 
in).

> The Apple logo is probably your best bet, short of putting together
> your own with Quartz Composer. Tutorials and examples are pretty
> plentiful.

Yea, I think you're probably right.

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Re: Blank screen screen saver?

[LuKreme]

On Dec 9, 2014, at 10:40 AM, Arno Hautala  wrote:
> So, if I understand everything that's been said:
> 
> The goal is to get a black screen when not in use.
> Energy saver can't be used because, instead of going black, the screen
> goes blue like a TV from the 80s.

Then you have a very old (and poor) display which is probably using 5 times as 
much energy as a new one. Any display sold int eh last 5-10 years should turn 
itself off when it has no input.

> The screen can't be turned off because that kills color accuracy for
> 20 minutes.

See above.

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Re: Blank screen screen saver?

[steve harley]

on 2014-12-09 10:40 Arno Hautala wrote

The Apple logo is probably your best bet, short of putting together
your own with Quartz Composer. Tutorials and examples are pretty
plentiful.


not vouching for this, but it's up the right alley:


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