Re: Scripting Energy Saver to Sleep Display Now?
Re: Scripting Energy Saver to Sleep Display Now?
- Subject: Re: Scripting Energy Saver to Sleep Display Now?
- From: Marconi <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 09:04:22 -0700
At 8:13 AM -0500 3/13/05, John Stewart issued a series of ones and zeros which decoded as:
>On 03/13/05 at -0700 Marconi said this
>
>>Does anyone know what parameter can be changed via script to cause
>>the Energy Saver to sleep the display(s) immediately, rather than
>>have to wait until the "Put display to sleep when the computer has
>>been inactive for:" period of time?
>>
>>That is, if the above setting is 1 hour, can one, via a script, make
>>the system think that an hour of inactivity has occurred? Surely
>>there's a flag somewhere which indicates that the set period has
>>elapsed and the display should power down right now, yes?
>
>Is this what you are looking for?
>
>tell application "Finder" to sleep
Note even close. This sleeps the Mac.
I simply want to shut off the LCD screen backlighting as if the Mac has been inactive for the amount of time specified in the Energy Saver pref pane. Leave all processes processing but dim the screen to save energy.
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