[X4U] Screen dimming

Richard Gilmore rgilmor at uwo.ca
Tue Feb 21 11:14:06 PST 2006


I'll give that a try.

I'm glad it's not just me then. I was beginning to think I was imagining
this. If it is a bug at least I know about it.

Thanx

Richard 


On 21/2/06 11:14 AM, "Michael Winter" <winter at mac.com> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 21, 2006, at 9:37 AM, Peter Saint James wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On 14 Feb 2006, at 5:09 AM, Richard Gilmore wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm on an Intel iMac with Tiger and what the screen does is dim
>>> after about
>>> 2 minutes of being idle. I don't want it to do this.
>> 
>> 
>> I think there was a discussion of this on this or another list not
>> long ago.  I remember the conclusion being that this is a bug in
>> Tiger.
> 
> Does it do it at the 2 min mark? Just wondering if instead of trying
> to turn it off, which doesn't seem to work, one could just set it to
> dim after 200 min of inactivity. If it at least obeys the time set,
> that might make it easier to live with.
> 
> -Mike
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