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Sleep Display
Version: 1.0.1 ||
Release Date: 2007-06-07 ||
License: Freeware
Also available as a widget.
If you have a beautiful new iMac, you know how nice and bright the screen is. Thing is...sometimes a bright screen isn't what you're going for. Enter this small application. When run, it IMMEDIATELY sleeps just your display so that you can continue running your background jobs. It doesn't permanently affect your energy settings, so when you start working again, your monitor will not sleep immediately.
Tags: Sleep , Wakeup , Monitor , Display
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This app currently doesn't support Leopard. People who are looking for this functionality can check out a widget called "Off" ( http://osx.iusethis.com/app/off )
Anyone interested in this functionality MUST check out Nocturne (http://osx.iusethis.com/search?q=nocturne) by the Quicksilver people. Instead of turning the display completely off, Nocturne puts your display in 'night mode' which is much less blinding than the normal display with a side effect of looking cool :)
oh my god!! Someone finally figured it out!! Thank you!! :)
oooops. I've figured out how to make it work...if your 'Put the computer to sleep when it is inactive for...' option in the Energy Saver preference panel is set to 'Never' then Sleep Display won't work. My bad ;) Works great for me now :D
This doesn't work for me. I've tried both the widget and the application, and they both put my display to sleep for only a moment before the display comes back on :(
Great. I've found several solutions that put the display to sleep in 1 minute, but this is the first that works immediately.
Simple, easy. One click "on", one click "off". Thank you.
oh my god, this is what i've been looking for =)