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I've had bad luck with this, I think...
Authored by: lullabud on Apr 12, '07 09:33:26AM

I was doing this for a month or two on my G5, but decided to disable it because I'd often come home and find my display awake with no screensaver. I couldn't find the root cause, but I suspected that it was caused by changing the dimming prefs while the screen was already asleep. I didn't test it out though, and it could've been something else causing it, like Vine Server.app, which is something I frequently run.



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Actually, I was doing it differently
Authored by: lullabud on Apr 12, '07 09:38:01AM
Looks like I replied too quickly without fully opening my eyes this morning, I had done it a slightly different way, via the user crontab with:
## Display dimming experiment
30 7 * * *      /usr/bin/pmset force dim 60
0 9 * * *       /usr/bin/pmset force dim 1
30 17 * * *     /usr/bin/pmset force dim 60
0 0 * * *       /usr/bin/pmset force dim 1
I had done it this way so as to not override the system defaults that I set up in the Energy Saver pref pane.

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