Forcing iMac G5 display to sleep

kakigori4me · 03-20-2005, 07:26 PM

Is there a way to force a display (only) to sleep on an iMac G5? I don't want to put the entire machine to sleep, and would like some convenient way to force the display to sleep on demand, rather that adjusting the powersave feature to put the display to sleep after a minute.

I was thinking of something along the lines of a shell script, or hot corner or konfabulator object, etc. I'd like to click somewhere, or better yet, creat a hot key sequence to turn off the display.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

Ke

bretthoerner · 01-07-2006, 02:50 PM

Bump, I'd really like to be able to do this, also.

mclbruce · 01-07-2006, 08:21 PM

It would be worth looking into AppleScript to do this. I took a quick look in some dictionaries but couldn't find an appropriate command. I've switched screen resolutions with AppleScript before though.

Hal Itosis · 01-09-2006, 01:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kakigori4me


	Is there a way to force a display (only) to sleep on an iMac G5? I don't want to put the entire machine to sleep, and would like some convenient way to force the display to sleep on demand, rather that adjusting the powersave feature to put the display to sleep after a minute.

Code:

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/pmset -a force displaysleep 1
exit 0

Should work on Tiger machines. Panther doesn't have the force option,
I believe... which sets the action by writing to RAM (i.e., no .plist on
disk is written to, which would require sudo. So on reboot, the default
setting should be restored). The integer on the end is minutes till sleep,
so you'll need to wait a minute. [I've never tried a 0 (zero)!]

Works on my PowerBook G4 anyway,

-HI-

03-20-2005, 07:26 PM	#1
kakigori4me Prospect Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 2	Forcing iMac G5 display to sleep Is there a way to force a display (only) to sleep on an iMac G5? I don't want to put the entire machine to sleep, and would like some convenient way to force the display to sleep on demand, rather that adjusting the powersave feature to put the display to sleep after a minute. I was thinking of something along the lines of a shell script, or hot corner or konfabulator object, etc. I'd like to click somewhere, or better yet, creat a hot key sequence to turn off the display. Thanks in advance for any advice. Ke

01-07-2006, 02:50 PM	#2
bretthoerner Registered User Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 1	Bump, I'd really like to be able to do this, also.

01-07-2006, 08:21 PM	#3
mclbruce Hall of Famer Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 3,878	It would be worth looking into AppleScript to do this. I took a quick look in some dictionaries but couldn't find an appropriate command. I've switched screen resolutions with AppleScript before though.