Login Screen timing out too quickly

jb_221 wrote:

How do I adjust the screen timeout for just the login screen? I have a monitor that wakes up VERY slowly. When I connect my macbook to my dock my macbook wakes up, then before the monitor actually begins displaying the content the macbook goes back to sleep, causing my monitor to go back to sleep. I have to sit there hitting a key over and over for a good 15 seconds, and then delete those keystrokes once the display finally comes up.

If I could change the timeout for my login screen to 1 minute or so it would solve the problem I can't find any information on how to do this.

AFAIK - until the Log In has been achieved - then and only then does the OS actually load and any Setting the user has enacted come into play. That being 5 minutes before the screen will dim or for that matter go to sleep

EDITED Wed Jan 19, 2022 @ 11:25 EST - correct spellings

You can change that in System Preferences, then Energy Saver. Click on the lock, and put in the admin password. After that, where it says "Turn display off after:" , next to it there is a slider that you can change how long the MacBook will have the display on before it goes to sleep.

There is no setting just for the login screen, but screen dimming and other hardware settings are loaded before login.

So the OP can solve his or her problem adapting the system preferences to his or her requirements.

I do have some questions. Does this happen everytime when you startup the MacBook, and it takes you to the login screen?

Does it do that everytime you log out of your user account of your MacBook, taking you to the login screen?

Suggestion and do not know for certain if this will work so proceed with caution.

What may need to be accessed is the SMC which would come into play even before the OS is booted

In the terminal Application run this command without quotation marks " man pmset " This will list many different switches to alter the SMC behaviour right from the moment the computer is turned on.

pmset can modify the values of any of the power management settings defined below

SETTINGS

     displaysleep - display sleep timer; replaces 'dim' argument in 10.4 (value

     in minutes, or 0 to disable)

     disksleep - disk spindown timer; replaces 'spindown' argument in 10.4

     (value in minutes, or 0 to disable)

     sleep - system sleep timer (value in minutes, or 0 to disable)

     womp - wake on ethernet magic packet (value = 0/1). Same as "Wake for

     network access" in the Energy Saver preferences.

     ring - wake on modem ring (value = 0/1)

     powernap - enable/disable Power Nap on supported machines (value = 0/1)

     proximitywake - On supported systems, this option controls system wake from

     sleep based on proximity of devices using same iCloud id. (value = 0/1)

     autorestart - automatic restart on power loss (value = 0/1)

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Did you try to go to "System preferences" > "Battery" > "Battery" and/or " Net adapter" to ajust the time for the screen to dim?

You will have to click on the padlock at the bottom of the Battery preferences window and enter your password in order to change the settings.

This is not what I experience.

I have set to dim my keyboard backlight after 1 minute inactivity, and that setting is allready active before login.

[Edited by Moderator]

In the context of OP -" How do I adjust the screen timeout for just the login screen? " the answer provided I stand by as accurate.

Exactly the point made in earlier posting..

There is no setting therefore there is no way to adjust the Log In Screen from behaving as it does.