When you press Vo/shift f11 Vo will say "screen curtain on or off."  The key 
stroke  toggles it on and off.  Hope that helps.
On Jul 30, 2010, at 2:13 AM, Sarah Alawami wrote:

> How can we actualy that it is actualy off, my sight aint what it used to be 
> and I don't have a light probe, not that it matters but I don't want anyone 
> looking over my sholder in the classroom or something.
> On Jul 29, 2010, at 11:29 PM, Michael Thurman wrote:
> 
>> if you hit f1 or function f1 you can turn the baclight completely off  and 
>> then do the screen curtain you  have to do them in that order. if you do 
>> screen curtain first and then turn down the backlight it will turn screen 
>> curtain back off. the backlight is completely off when it says zero percent
>> 
>> On Jul 28, 2010, at 6:32 PM, John D. Lipsey wrote:
>> 
>>> Turning down the brightness doesn't completely turn off the display, but is 
>>> it possible, with a MacBook, to completely turn off the screen including 
>>> the backlight?
>>> On Jul 28, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Michael Thurman wrote:
>>> 
>>>> now that would be a nice feature   screen curtain shouldjust turn both the 
>>>> backlight and the screen off at once you should not have to remember to do 
>>>> both lol  we might as well have something in our favor considering how 
>>>> manythigns  we have set against us lol  like at and t internet tech 
>>>> support people refusing to help caus i couldn't do a speed test  cause 
>>>> their service was lousy lol  I think I scared them i d\ sid fine Im callng 
>>>> time warnerand hung up on them
>>>> 
>>>> On Jul 28, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> I don't know anything about the monitors but can you not hit the on off 
>>>>> switch for your mac mini's monitor? or will that confuse vo?
>>>>> On Jul 28, 2010, at 10:41 AM, RvR wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>> That would be the ideal solution, however on iMacs it isn't possible to 
>>>>>> turn
>>>>>> the screen completely off. Unless someone knows otherwise. Please pretty
>>>>>> please... smile
>>>>>> Best,
>>>>>> Ronald
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>>>>>> Van: [email protected]
>>>>>> [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Sarah Alawami
>>>>>> Verzonden: woensdag 28 juli 2010 19:08
>>>>>> Aan: [email protected]
>>>>>> Onderwerp: Re: screen curtain
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> and Plus whenthe screen curtainis on you still see a curser so yeah 
>>>>>> turnng
>>>>>> off the desplay is better.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> S
>>>>>> On Jul 25, 2010, at 8:22 PM, Mike Arrigo wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> For saving the battery, rather than using the screen curtain, I would 
>>>>>>> turn
>>>>>> the display brightness all the way down to 0, that will totally turn off 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> screen lighting.
>>>>>>> On Jul 25, 2010, at 4:20 PM, John D. Lipsey wrote:
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Hello!
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> I enable my screen curtain because A: I don't like people being able to
>>>>>> look over my shoulder while I'm using my computer, and B: I assume that 
>>>>>> it
>>>>>> saves a bit of battery power.  However, I was under the impression that 
>>>>>> the
>>>>>> screen curtain would behave like it does on the IPhone and reactivate
>>>>>> whenever I turn on voiceover or my computer. Should this in fact be the
>>>>>> case? Or is it normal to have to restart the screen curtain each time you
>>>>>> restart voiceover/the computer?
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Thanks again for all the help.
>>>>>>>> 
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