Set a one-minute display sleep time

Nov 18, '01 10:33:15PM

Contributed by: Anonymous

If you're like me and like to save as much battery as possible you might like this. You may have noticed that the shortest time for sleep is 5 minutes. this can be changed in the file /Library/Preferences/com.apple.PowerManagement.plist:

  1. open up a terminal
  2. type 'cd /Library/Preferences' at the prompt
  3. sudo vi com.apple.PowerManagement.plist
  4. edit the numbers between the <integer></integer> tags.
  5. save your changes, logout and log back in.
I was only able to get the display to dim after a minute and then turn of a minute later. I tested it on the hard disk but have been unsuccessful; haven't tested it on system sleep.

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