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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On Dec 7, 2014, at 2:33 PM, Michael_google gmail_Gersten > <[email protected]> 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. > > > -- > Do Alaska and Hawaii have Interstate Highways? > > _______________________________________________ > MacOSX-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk -- arno s hautala /-| [email protected] pgp b2c9d448 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
