Of course don't forget you can turn off the backlight for the keyboard on the MacBook Pro as well. There is an option in System Preferences under Keyboard for this and it is to disable keyboard backlight. Illuminate keyboard in low light conditions and unchecking as far as I know will disable this feature. On Jul 6, 2009, at 1:02 PM, Justin Harford wrote:
> Dimming the screen down will at least completely turn off the > illumination, a far cry fromm what most computers will let you do. > On Jul 6, 2009, at 5:43 AM, James & Nash wrote: > >> Thanks Scott, >> >> That is a real shame I think. >> >> Take care >> >> James >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Scott Howell >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 10:46 AM >> Subject: Re: Turning off MacBook screens? >> >> 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
