Re: Screensavers on the dark side...
- From: Dave Balderstone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 17:59:31 -0600
In article <46C4E0CB.A6B71AAD@xxxxxxxx>, John Albert
<j.albert@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello all -
After years of using "standard desktop" Macs (this msg is being composed on my
old (old!) PowerMac 9600 from back about 1996), I broke down and bought a
closeout 24" "white" Intel iMac (frys.com had them for $500 off, and I was put
off by the reflective, glossy screen of the aluminum iMacs). I also use a
PowerMac g/4 MDD (last of the breed).
Till now, I never bothered much setting up a "sleep" routine, I'm used to just
pushing the monitor power button off when I'm going to be away for a while.
I've got 3rd party USB2 and Firewire cards in the g/4, it won't sleep
"properly", in any case.
Just powering down the monitor has worked fine for me for years.
Of course, you can't power down the iMac's monitor without shutting down the
computer. There are still times when I have it doing something (defragging or
cloning the main system partition to a backup), that I would like to "lower
down" the monitor as much as possible, while leaving other operations in
progress (hence, no sleep).
I'm looking for a very _dark_ screensaver that all-but "Fades to black". I've
browsed around the screensavers included in the "Energy Saver" pref panel, but
didn't find any that pretty much darkened the screen. They all still "display
an image".
Anyone know of screensavers that _really_ black the LCD out?
I find setting the display to sleep works for me. See the Energy Saver
preference pane.
.
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