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Re: Scripting Energy Saver to Sleep Display Now?
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Re: Scripting Energy Saver to Sleep Display Now?


  • Subject: Re: Scripting Energy Saver to Sleep Display Now?
  • From: Gnarlodious <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 14:45:23 -0700

Entity Marconi spoke thus:

> 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?
Possibly look at

man pmset

For example, you can set disk spindown time like this:

sudo pmset -c spindown 5


-- Gnarlie


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