How to turn off Thunderbolt Display Screen?

You would have to disconnect the Thunderbolt cable from your MacBook Air. The TBD does not have a power button and only works as a display when connected to a computer. I don't know of any setting to do this.

I found this works great:

open System Preferences->Desktop & Screen Saver

select "Screen Saver" portion

select "Hot Corners..."

pick one of the screen corners and choose "Put Display to Sleep"

Bit of a revival, but I've not got a Thunderbolt display (yet, waiting for the updates to get one to accompany my Mac mini) but a simple: Ctrl-Shift-Eject on my iMac puts my display to sleep, can't see why it won't work on a TBD? Like to know if it does?

keogh,

your key combination works perfect. i turned off my display. thanks for the tip... i was not aware of this.

thanks,

bobby

Problem is, both these ideas turn the notebook display off as well.

Is there a way, short of unplugging the display from the notebook, to turn just it off?

Thanks.

SwitchResX

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"You can disable or deactivate a monitor without having to physically unplug it"

Genius!! Works great.... Thx!

Yeah. How genius. You got an handicap display and found a way to make it less handicap. I unfortunately can't fix it because my keyboard do not have a "Eject" button. Again, brilliant. They remove the Delete key and put in an Eject. They really want to ejectulate.

Just replace Ctrl+Shift+Eject with Ctrl+Shift+Power if you don't have an eject key - works the same way 😀

This does work. Display goes black on CTL-Shift-Eject and turns back on when I move the mouse via my trackpad or touch a key.

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