Blank screen from idling and prompt user to log in when awaken?

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Blank screen from idling and prompt user to log in when awaken?

Hello.

I want to stop using updated Mac OS X 10.5.8 (I think it happens in 10.7.4 too IIRC)'s Flurry screen saver and just let Mac OS X 10.5.8 blank/sleep its screen to save energy, not make Macs (Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, etc.) hot especially in the heat waves, and use less resources. I noticed making display (not the computer) sleep and then waking does not ask me to log in like a screen saver would do. Is there a way to do this for sleeping displays?

Thank you in advance. 🙂

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 2.4 Ghz; A1260 model; 15" size.

Posted on Jul 1, 2012 1:25 PM

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Answer 1

BDAqua

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Jul 1, 2012 2:34 PM in response to antdude

Hello again! 🙂

System Preferences>Security>General tab>Require Password to wake from sleep or Screensaver.

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Jul 1, 2012 2:47 PM in response to BDAqua

BDAqua wrote:

Hello again! 🙂

System Preferences>Security>General tab>Require Password to wake from sleep or Screensaver.

I did. I think that sleep one is only for computer sleep and not display's sleep which I tried. 😟

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Answer 3

Jul 1, 2012 3:08 PM in response to antdude

Just tried it - you are correct.

Here is a fix for you:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=4934669&postcount=16

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Jul 1, 2012 3:16 PM in response to Neville Hillyer

Neville Hillyer wrote:

Just tried it - you are correct.

Here is a fix for you:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=4934669&postcount=16

Thanks. I will try that later. I hope it works on all Mac OS X versions beside 10.5.x. I wonder why Apple didn't include a blank black screen saver. 😝

I did find a small workaround. Set the screen saver and put display to sleep after a minute later. 😀

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BDAqua

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Jul 1, 2012 7:17 PM in response to Neville Hillyer

Great find, thanks! 🙂

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Answer 6

Jul 2, 2012 2:44 AM in response to BDAqua

The sad story is that I always sleep via an old AppleScript but can no longer find the source. It requires a password and I think it was intended to hibernate my PPC G4 tower - the same as portable defaults - pmset adjustment.

I am not convinced it any longer hibernates - must check this.

I usually document such things on the web but I cannot find the final version.

Here is an interesting link I used during my AppleScript development:

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20061116062825314

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Answer 7

Jul 2, 2012 2:55 AM in response to antdude

In my opinion this is not a good thing to do unless all your disk always power down shortly after. In general disks last longer if they stop spinning. I prefer to hibernate - RAM stored to disk and power off - activation times shorter than boot but slightly longer than sleep - these are the defaults for most portables but not desktops. See my other post.

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