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January 16, 2013
Macbook Air Hot Corners
I recently found myself in possession of a Macbook Air. Unfortunately, it means I have to carry around a new power supply, as this one is different than the power supply for my iPhone 4S and iPad3 3.
So, I find myself at work in the financial district with my Macbook Air and my power supply at my flat in North Beach.
I want the computer to run, but not waste a lot of energy on the display. So, I wanted to figure out how to turn off the monitor, but allow the computer to keep humming away. I did a bit of searching and found out that you can enable "Hot Corners" on the Macbook Air. So I set up my lower left corner to be a Hot Corner that makes the display go to sleep. Pretty slick. :)
Go to System Preferences > Desktop & Screensaver > Screensaver > Hot Corners and then assign "Put Display to Sleep" to one of the corners.
Move the mouse around or hit any key and it wakes back up.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=269853
Originally Posted by therealmuffin View PostI recently bought a macbook pro with osx 10.5 installed on it. There I found that when I bring my pointer to the bottom right corner and let it slide a bit through my display is turned off. In this instance, my dock is on the left and the menu bar is on top.
This has the advantage over turning brightness all the way down that it is much faster and you actually turn off your display instead of having it at unreadable brightness (your display is actually still on when dimming brightness)
I have no clue if it is enabled by default or if you have already found this out, but well.
Something like this is what I do too. Can decide what it is by going to to System Preferences>Desktop & Screensaver>Screensaver>Hot Corners and then assign "Put Display to Sleep" to one of the corners. The move the mouse around a bit again, and it wakes back up
Posted by Rob Kiser on January 16, 2013 at 4:34 PM
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