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 > _______________________________________________ > X4U mailing list > X4U at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/x4u > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984