Screen curtain does not turn the screen off. If you turn the brightness down as far as it will go, that will help save your battery, but I do not believe you can turn the screen off entirely-in other words cut power to it. On Jul 6, 2009, at 5:38 AM, James & Nash wrote:
> Hi, > > Am I corect in thinking that the Linux commandline options will work > under Mac OS X? If so, if I could find out how to write shell > scripts or whatever they are called do you think they would work > under Mac OS X? Also, do the Screen Brightness and Screen Curtain > options actually turn the screen off? > > Take care > > james > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alex Jurgensen > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 5:22 AM > Subject: Re: Turning off MacBook screens? > > Hi, > James, > > Just continue with Screen Brightness and Screen Curtain together. I > should write a CLI script for this. > > Regards, > Alex, > > > On 5-Jul-09, at 2:39 PM, James & Nash wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> This might sound like an odd question, but as i cannot see the >> screen I was wondering if there was a way to turn it off? I know >> that you can turn the screen brightness right down and use the >> Screen Curtain which effectively does this which was what I used to >> do. But I was wondering if there was a solution via the Command >> Line. In Linux, this can be achieved by something like dpms off. >> This keeps the screen off until you either use dpms on our restart >> the pc. >> >> I have tried turning off my laptop screen in Windows, and JFW >> doesn't like it too much. As VO is built directly into the system i >> assume it doesn't use video intercept but instead gets its access >> info direct from the Mac OS X kernel? >> >> Thanks for any help that you can provide >> >> Thank you for taking the time to read this. >> >> Take care >> >> James >> >> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
