Tip: Preventing Your Display From Going to Sleep Using iTunes
February 27th, 2006
In System Preferences > Energy Saver, I have my display set to turn off after one minute. Since my iMac never goes to sleep, and it’s in my room, I prefer this setting. But it can get annoying when my display goes to sleep after one minute because I’m reading something and thus am not using the mouse or keyboard.
I tried finding a way to manually turn off the display (app, AppleScript, shell script, anything), but in vain. However, I stumbled upon a very simple workaround: Whenever I wish to prevent my display from going to sleep, I simply turn on the Visualizer in iTunes.
Note: This will not work if hide iTunes or disable the iTunes window, as both of these will stop the Visualizer.
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