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Check Desktop image rotation timing to cure lack of sleep
Authored by: Peter Kappesser on Oct 14, '03 06:53:22PM

I had the opposite problem: with rotating Desktop images (every 30 minutes, from a folder of images I'd downloaded from "Astronomy Picture of the Day"), my system would refuse to wake from sleep after I was away for a long weekend, although it would be fine if left just overnight. This past weekend I shut off image rotation (and left up the default blue swirly image) and there was no problem upon my return, although this time I was running 10.2.8 and the last time I had the problem I was running 10.2.6 so admittedly something else may have changed to account for the improvement.

Also, I have noticed in the past that the iCal reminder alerts cause the monitor to wake up if sleeping, or prevent it from sleeping. I expect this is a feature, not a bug, but it would be nice if it were controlled by a preference.



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