Turn off screen on iMac

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matthawaiimatthawaii
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
Aloha,



I have a new iMac and will want a quick way to be able to turn off the screen when I leave the computer for the evening but need it to render a movie overnight.



It would need to wake back up when I moved the mouse or hit a key.



Would an script to put the screen to sleep be the best way?



-Matt

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    kingofsomewherehotkingofsomewherehot Posts: 4,185member
    Hot Corners.



    System Preferences -> Desktop And Screen Saver -> Select "Screen Saver", Select "Hot Corners", pisck a corner and choose "Display Sleep" from the pull-down menu.

    Now, whenever you flick the mouse pointer to that corner, it'll put the screen to sleep (but not the CPU.)
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  • Reply 2 of 4
    matthawaiimatthawaii Posts: 14member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by KingOfSomewhereHot View Post


    Hot Corners.



    System Preferences -> Desktop And Screen Saver -> Select "Screen Saver", Select "Hot Corners", pisck a corner and choose "Display Sleep" from the pull-down menu.

    Now, whenever you flick the mouse pointer to that corner, it'll put the screen to sleep (but not the CPU.)



    Thanks! That is exactly what I was looking for.



    -Matt
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  • Reply 3 of 4
    addaboxaddabox Posts: 12,665member
    You can do the same thing with control-shift-eject.



    Just thought I'd mention it because it's one of the poorly documented by kinda cool Apple keyboard things.
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    rezwitsrezwits Posts: 922member
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by addabox View Post


    You can do the same thing with control-shift-eject.



    Just thought I'd mention it because it's one of the poorly documented by kinda cool Apple keyboard things.



    THat's hella undocumented, thanx



    Laters...
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