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Sleep Display 2.8

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Malcolm Hall

Sleep Display... Snow Leopard has a limitation that the only way to sleep a display is with a hot corner. So, when run, this small application will sleep your display instantly. Ideal for iMacs which have no display off button.

What's New

Version 2.8:

Now supports Snow Leopard

Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5 or 10.6

DisplaySleep

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Instantly turn off your Display.

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Roro01 commented on 20 Jan 2011

The best thing for your Mac is to leave it 'on' 24 hours a day, put "Display sleep" in System Preferences to 15 minutes or so and "Computer sleep" to Never.

[Version 2.8]

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Warmlogic commented on 20 Jan 2011

Press control-shift-eject to put your display to sleep.

[Version 2.8]

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Mark Lee replied on 04 Sep 2011

Good luck setting that hotkey combination to a remote.

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Penguirl commented on 19 Jan 2011

"Snow Leopard has a limitation that the only way to sleep a display is with a hot corner."

That is not correct. Launch Keychain Access, open the preferences, check "Show Status in Menu Bar" box. When you click the padlock icon in the menu bar and select "Lock Screen" it will put the display to sleep. At least on my SL Mac Pro/Al CD it does.

[Version 2.8]

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Momijigari commented on 09 Jan 2011

Or simply use your built-in OS X ScreenSaver preference panel and set your "Hot Corners" function to "Put Display to Sleep".

Then all you have to do to sleep your display is move your mouse into the corner you chose.

[Version 2.8]

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Aargl reviewed on 21 Dec 2010

Both DisplaySleep and SleepDisplay give an error when you try to activate them via Applescript (iMac G5 10.5.8).
Except for that I love them! :-)

[Version 2.8]

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Cowicide replied on 31 Jan 2012

After some experimenting, I found I can activate Sleep Display in Applescript without errors with:

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do shell script "open /Applications/SleepDisplay.app"
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This gets rid of the "Application isn’t running" Applescript error and having the path doesn't make "dropdmg" pop up in the script because applescript can't find the Sleep Display app due to some weirdness in the Sleep Display app coding.

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Uncoy reviewed on 31 Dec 2009

Great. You can turn off your displays with a keyboard shortcut (none Apple keyboards) finally. Use Butler, Spark, Keyboard Maestro to do it.

[Version 1.0]

eromer commented on 07 Sep 2008

Works great, saves energy -- perfect!

24-inch iMac (early 2008) running OSX 10.5.4

[Version 1.0]

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indiekiduk (developer) commented on 18 Dec 2007

Project home page: http://www.imalc.com/Site/SleepDisplay.html

[Version 1.0]

shiroineko commented on 16 Nov 2007

Sweet! It worked on my external display.

[Version 1.0]

MacCanuck tipped on 14 Nov 2007

Simple and does what it says it's suppose to do, on an iMac G5 2.1GHz running 10.5. Great when you want to listen to music and want your screen off. I use 'Butler' to launch it via hotkey

[Version 1.0]

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