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Simplified shell script
For some time I’ve had a simple shell script called “ The fact that OS X is case-insensistive-but-preserving, combined with friendly’s hint, led me to update that one-liner. Save this somewhere in your
Now, a perfect accompaniment to this would be a hack that used the sleep / lid LED light as a power indicator. I’ve always been convinced that that light should be on steady and bright when the power is on; on steady but dim when running off battery; do the cycle / glow thing when sleeping; and be off when the computer is off. As it is now, you can’t tell the differece between a computer with the backlight off and one with the whole thing powered down, unless you try to wake it…. Cheers, b&
Simplified shell script
This is great. Combined with this hint and the force hint above, I made a plain text file called Hibernate Now.command and put it on the Desktop. I change the permissions of that file so it would execute:
and put the following in it (I don't run secure VM):
Using the script above, you could set it up to work with either VM mode.
The great part is it requires no password nor a set uid bit which makes me nervous when that UID is root.---
A helper script to enter SafeSleep on demand
Ok basically similar to this post, just for lazy ppl, the suspendnow app may be a better solution.!! |
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