- LightMe has been discontinued
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Developer
malcom
LightMe is a small Preference Pane and background daemon that allows you to change brightness and power of your monitor with customizable keyboard shortcut. Using Lightme you can reduce to a preset value the brightness, restore it to the last value (and with anther click of your restore shortcut you can switch to the max value) and poweroff the monitor.
You can also hibernate your computer since 2.0!
Lightme core is a little lightweight background daemon compatible both with Intel and PPC processors. You can install it at login, activate or deactivate it with a simple click from
Lightme core is a little lightweight background daemon compatible both with Intel and PPC processors. You can install it at login, activate or deactivate it with a simple click from
What's New
Version 2.5:
- Leopard Compatibility. (USE 2.0 FOR TIGER SYSTEMS)
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LightMe is a small Preference Pane and background daemon that allows you to change brightness and power of your monitor with customizable keyboard shortcut. Using Lightme you can reduce to a preset value the brightness, restore it to the last value (and with anther click of your restore shortcut you can switch to the max value) and poweroff the monitor.
You can also hibernate your computer since 2.0!
Lightme core is a little lightweight background daemon compatible both with Intel and PPC processors. You can install it at login, activate or deactivate it with a simple click from the preferences pane.
Lightme core is a little lightweight background daemon compatible both with Intel and PPC processors. You can install it at login, activate or deactivate it with a simple click from the preferences pane.
On my MacBook the backlight controls function as intented. But on my iMac the "Reduce to off" does not turn off the backlight but rather goes to lowest brightness.
I want to use this program in combination with Screen Sharing but any cursor movement turns on the display again, which I do not want.
gopy reviewed on 22 Jun 2007
+93
However I can't seem to make LightMe install at login.
I have to manually launch LightMe and click Activate Monitor Shortcuts every time I login, even after repeatedly clicking the Install At Login button.
I tried tossing the pref file and reinstalling the preference pane to no avail.
I would love to have this app work, any advice would be much appreciated.
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Balthamos reviewed on 09 Apr 2007
+5
http://linestreet.googlepages.com/sleepdisplayapplication
You can use Butler to map it to any key. Maybe in the future the author will allow it to run as a background process, and allow it's own key mapping ability (I'm trying to find ways to make butler obsolete because it makes my startup really slow :))
The iMac screen has no built-in provision for turning off the back-light, it can only be dimmed. Putting the screen to sleep does turn off the back-light, but LightMe does not do this, and as far as I know, no utility does. Applescript can be made to turn off the back-light, but it takes at least a minute and is just a bit clunky. Anybody want to really try and make this work? I know a bunch of iMac users that would be greatful!
2 stars for trying, but not ready for iMac users.
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do shell script ("pmset displaysleep 1") ¬
user name ¬
"LoginShortUsername" password ¬
"LoginPassword" with administrator privileges
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MadMacMad reviewed on 04 Apr 2007
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very nice!!
:D
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1z2x3c rated on 05 Feb 2011