Dimming an iBook with an external keyboard
Apr 29, '02 12:01:42AM • Contributed by: Anonymous
I "dock" my iBook when I'm at home, plugging it into an external monitor and using an external keyboard and mouse. I've always been bothered by the fact that I couldn't use the brightness control keys on the iBook's keyboard to turn the screen off completely (if you turn the brightness all the way down, it goes to sleep).
The other day, I hit F15 on my external keyboard by accident and I saw that it mimicked the "Bightness Up" key on the iBook, just like F12 does "Eject Disk." As you might expect, I found that F14 turns the brightness down by one unit. But, when you use F14 on the external keyboard to take the brightness level to zero, the iBook's screen turns off but the system doesn't go to sleep!