Re: Cancel Sleep

Subject: Re: Cancel Sleep

From: David Alger <email@hidden>

Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2007 23:16:46 -0600

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On Dec 31, 2007, at 10:11 AM, Robert T Wyatt wrote:

Amanda Walker wrote:
On Dec 31, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Brian Mastenbrook wrote:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86286
"How to use your PowerBook G4, MacBook Pro or MacBook with the display closed"
Note that these instructions *do not prevent sleep*, which is what Andrew was asking about.

No, but they prove that it's not a bug to allow the laptop to keep running with the lid closed.

In this case, "not triggering sleep" is equivalent. As long as "sleep: never" works in the control panel then the desired effect is achieved.

BTW, I'm not necessarily an advocate for disabling what I consider to be a useful security feature (forcing sleep upon closing the lid).

If that was the case, the screen could lock upon closure. However, the screen doesn't always lock when slept either. If however, you are saying that sleeping is a security feature in that the machine is no longer available to networks; obviously if the user wants the machine running they wouldn't care about that.

From this it seems reasonable to assume that "waking up with the lid closed and an external display attached" is a different case from "don't go to sleep when the lid is closed."
--Amanda

It is a different case, but the laptop is still running with the lid closed!

--David

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References:

>Cancel Sleep (From: Andrew James <email@hidden>)

>Re: Cancel Sleep (From: Terry Lambert <email@hidden>)

>Re: Cancel Sleep (From: David Alger <email@hidden>)

>Re: Cancel Sleep (From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <email@hidden>)

>Re: Cancel Sleep (From: Brian Mastenbrook <email@hidden>)

>Re: Cancel Sleep (From: Amanda Walker <email@hidden>)

>Re: Cancel Sleep (From: Robert T Wyatt <email@hidden>)