I have a late 2012 mac mini and a 2013 21.5" iMac, both running the latest updated OSX. In the energy saver preferences screen, the mac Mini shows separate controls for display sleep and computer sleep. The iMac does not. What gives?
iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5)
That doesn't sound correct, please send a screen shot of the iMac Energy Setting screen.
From the macMini:
From the iMac:
I appears that I can't set up the iMac such that it will sleep only the display and not put the computer to sleep. I want to set up the iMac similarly to the Mac Mini. On the Mini, I set it to never sleep since I use it as a media server. The display sleeps, and hitting return wakes it without requiring a password.
On the iMac if the display sleeps, the computer sleeps. To wake requires that I press the power button and then provide my login password.
I have the same thing....
What would happen if you set the display off after 30min (for example) and then click the box 'prevent computer from sleeping.... '.
Will the display go off after 30min and keep the computer running? So it will accomplish the same thing as sliding 'Computer sleep' to Never?
Correct. Apparently, tBrown inadvertantly missed that option checkbox. If only I had a dollar for every time I've done the same or similar.
Imagine, some folks can just use Terminal.app to do things that we know little or nothing of.
The bottom line is we're little fish in a big pond that keeps getting bigger, deeper & darker.
Best Regards,
mm~
Actually, I have things set up just like this. it might even work, but there is not really any way to know that the iMac is sleeping as opposed to having just shut off the screen, at least not that I have discovered.
It has been suggested that using the apple keyboard and using the CapsLock light tells you, but it doesn't in my experience. If the light is on and you sleep the machine, yes it does go out. However, it also goes out based on a timer, probably when the keyboard sleeps, so it is not a reliable indicator of actual cpu sleep.
In my present setup, I sleep the display and tell it not to sleep the cpu with the display. I believe this works. Then I set a schedule for sleeping the cpu overnight and waking it in the morning. I think this works, but who knows?
Terry
edit "/S/L/E/IOPlatformPluginFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/X86PlatformPlugin.kext/Con tents/Resources/Your-Mac-Model.plist"
find:
<key>UnifiedSleepSliderPref</key>
<true/>
replace:
<key>UnifiedSleepSliderPref</key>
<false/>
rebuild kext cache and reboot.
Separate controls display sleep/computer sleep
