danco;491873 Wrote: > Officially Energy Saver should only put the Mac to sleep if there is no > keyboard activity, no mouse activity, and no hard drive activity. > > I am not sure if it sometimes fails to behave properly if there is no > hard drive activity. > > On my system something prevents Energy Saver putting the machine to > sleep at all (it's a known problem, but there seem to be many causes). > So I have added a program Please Sleep that forces sleep when needed. > Unfortunately (for known reasons) it does put the Mac to sleep whenever > there has been no keyboard or mouse activity for the specified time even > if the hard drive has been accessed. > > I solved this, and my solution should work for you. > > Get one of the free programs Jiggler or Caffeine (they work slightly > differently, you may prefer one or the other). Write shell scripts to > activate or deactivate whichever you choose. Now make SvrPowerControl > run the activation script when not idle, and the deactivation script on > idle. > > I can tell you how to write scripts if you don't know.
I would love to take you up on your offer of how to write the script you mention. I have downloaded Caffeine. -- oriordan ------------------------------------------------------------------------ oriordan's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=3698 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48521 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
