Closed-Lid iBook on External Monitor?

tensdanny38tensdanny38
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in General Discussion edited January 2014
Is this possible to do? I have an external monitor with a much higher resolution than my iBook has and want to do some work on there. Is closed-lid usage possible with a hack?

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  • Reply 1 of 3
    >_>>_> Posts: 336member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by tensdanny38

    Is this possible to do? I have an external monitor with a much higher resolution than my iBook has and want to do some work on there. Is closed-lid usage possible with a hack?



    On my old (OLD) iBook, the only way I could find to do it was to disable sleep mode, and close the lid with display brightness set to 0.



    I'll see if I can find an application that can do it for you. IIRC I had to use terminal commands and such.



    - Xidius
  • Reply 2 of 3
    >_>>_> Posts: 336member
    Here you go:



    http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/17893



    - Xidius
  • Reply 3 of 3
    mynameheremynamehere Posts: 560member
    As far as I know, the iBook should not be run with the lid closed because of heat problems. Having the extra screen is not a problem with the hack.
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