Tomo Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Any possibility of adding an option (under Features>System) to put display/-s to sleep as an alternative to starting a screensaver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdfwarrior Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 As a stop-gap, you could download this app: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/26234/sleep-display And just create a workflow or hotkey to trigger it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted January 29, 2013 Author Share Posted January 29, 2013 Thanks for your reply. I'm familiar with the app you mentioned and do use it, but it hasn't been updated in a long time and with every OS X update I'm afraid it's going to stop working... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlosNZ Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Personally, I use Dockables for this very thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sphardy Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 I guess to Tomo's point: BTW: Whats with the forum not accepting short links for image urls? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vero Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 BTW: Whats with the forum not accepting short links for image urls? What were you trying to post? Let me know as I want to make sure the forum's running as smoothly as possible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlosNZ Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 I guess to Tomo's point: Huh. Never noticed. Still working fine for me (at least the Sleep Display one) on Mountain Lion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sphardy Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Hi Vero What were you trying to post? Let me know as I want to make sure the forum's running as smoothly as possible Short URL to the above image is: http://note.io/X5GM72 - gets accepted perfectly fine in the edit dialog, showing the image. The error message is generated on Post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted January 29, 2013 Author Share Posted January 29, 2013 Yeah, I tested Dockables too and it works fine, but as sphardy correctly pointed out, it's future is questionable.I don't know how these utilities are written, but to my knowledge it's not just AppleScript, so I question their future without proper support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlosNZ Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Yeah, I tested Dockables too and it works fine, but as sphardy correctly pointed out, it's future is questionable.I don't know how these utilities are written, but to my knowledge it's not just AppleScript, so I question their future without proper support. As far as I can tell, they're all very simple one-line commands made available by Apple (like the ones baked into Alfred) except for the Sleep Display one. From my research (ie. Google) the Sleep Display one is kind of a hack that involves (AFAIK) setting the display sleep timeout to zero and then forcing a re-read of those settings etc. It's ugly, but Apple never provided a simple way to do this, and hence why it's not in Alfred, I would think. I imagine all these various utilities are using a variant of this same hack, and it's probably the best we'll get for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vero Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 Short URL to the above image is: http://note.io/X5GM72 - gets accepted perfectly fine in the edit dialog, showing the image. The error message is generated on Post. I guess it doesn't check the forwarding URL and sees /X5GM72 - which doesn't end in .jpg, .png, etc... Sorry, not much we can do about this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmazin Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 You could use the default Apple shortcut to sleep all displays. It is: Shift-Control-Media Eject (⏏) On keyboards without the Eject key use the power key. You can find this and similar system shortcuts at the this support article - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1343 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 Unfortunately I don't use or own an Apple keyboard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdfwarrior Posted January 30, 2013 Share Posted January 30, 2013 The method Carlos suggested doesn't work either. I actually looked into this for a bit last night. The method he's suggesting is typically executed using pmset. Using pmset, you can set the timeout before the display sleeps. The down side of this is, the value passed is integer minutes. Setting it to zero as Carlos suggested disables the feature. The lowest possible value is 1 (minute). I looked into Applescript methods for doing this. You can't simulate a keystroke for the Eject key, so that doesn't work. Once again, I would simply recommend Sleep Display (linked above). Just because something hasn't been updated in a while doesn't mean that it's going to stop working sometime really soon. Also, it's not as if OS X is updated weekly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted January 30, 2013 Author Share Posted January 30, 2013 I agree with your points. The reason I suggested the feature was because I'm trying to find a developer that would actively support it and Alfred seemed like the tool where that feature might make sense. I realize that makes me sound egotistical, but I do believe that there are people that would find legitimate use for that feature. I wasn't however, aware of the underlying complexity... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlosNZ Posted January 31, 2013 Share Posted January 31, 2013 FYI - you can use KeyRemap4MacBook to remap the eject key and then use AppleScript to trigger the new key. (Despite the silly name, it's not just for Macbooks). I've had KR4M installed for a while now (to give me a forward-delete key), but I never actually realised quite how powerful it can be. In fact, I daresay that pretty much every hotkey related feature request I've seen on this board could be achieved with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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