Display sleep settings & Parallels

Its my observation that whenever am playing video on my iMac the display never goes to sleep, though the settings are set to to 10 mins. However, when am running any videos using Parallels on Windodows 7, the Mac display goes to sleep mode after 10 mins.
Any specific settings for Parallels or Mac to overcome this issue.

I think it's not possible as far as I know.

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Change display sleep settings depending on application?

I've got a small studio setup, where my macpro is connected to three monitors.
I use Traktor, and while it's open I'd like to overide the display sleep setting.
Once Traktor is closed, the sleep settings should revert to their orignal configurations.
I know how to achieve this manually - but to do this each time is frustrating (100% first world problem).
But I'm wondering if somebody has done this before? Is it even possible?
Thanks in advance,
H

I think it's not possible as far as I know.

Macbook display sleeps a little TOO hard

Okay, So I have a black macbook with the 160g HD and 1gig ram running leapord and I made the mistake of installing InsomniaX so I could try to use my macbook as an iPod while I walked home from class from inside my backpack. It didn't work so I deleted InsomniaX but now when I close my mac book, something strange happens.
The computer Goes to sleep, but it doesn't simply sleep, it goes into this intense hibernation. WHen I open the lid, its as if the computer is off, and you can't simply hit the keys to wake it up. You have to press the Power button. When you do that, the computer starts to life, and the screen returns to what you were last doing, only there is a grey wash over it and there is a loading bar that loads the computer back up. Once the bar is done loading, you can resume your stuff.
Thats never happened before I deleted InsomniaX, and I really didn't want that program on my laptop. I've reset, and fiddled with the display sleep settings, but I haven't found the solution yet, ergo I'm here typing this quickly.
I would like to return my mac to normal, where you close the lid, it sleeps, you open the lid, and it wakes up. I don't really like that its turning off, or whatever it is doing, so even though I could technically leave it, I would prefer not to. Actually I'm not even sure if its damaging my computer at all.
Anyways guys, you are all SUPER helpful, so I'm sure one of you knows whats up. And I hope to hear from ya soon!

Welcome to the Forums!
First of all, make sure that you have COMPLETELY deleted InsomniaX. Try downloading it again, and there may be an uninstall utility there. If not, use a utility such as CleanApp:
http://www.synium.de/products/cleanapp/index.html
to make sure you've gotten rid of ALL the files linked to InsomniaX. Also, 1 gig isn't enough to comfortably run Leopard, upgrade to at least 2 gigs.
Hope this helps!

Display sleeps after 1-2 minutes running Windows 8.1

Both my MacBook Pro Retina 15-inch (Early 2013) and my wife/son's MacBook Pro 13-inch (Late 2011) are dual booted with Windows 8.1. Both have the same display issue; the display goes to sleep after approximately 1 to 2 minutes (1:20 to be precise). The issue didn't appear until the 2nd day after the install on my MacBook Pro Retina and it has been an ongoing issue for my wife on her 13-inch. Is it related to the 5.1.5621 or 5.1.5640 Boot Camp drivers? Can I remove those drivers and try to go back to the previously released set of drivers? That is when I notice the issue show on my MacBook but honestly there were so many updates through the process that this is just a guess. It's more of a nuisance than anything. After finding and installing Lubbos for the heating issue and TrackPad++ for the trackpad options I was hoping I could solve this as well. Has anyone heard of a fix for this? The only display/sleep issues I've been able to find are not similar to my issue, from what I've read anyways. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

I'm having the same problem and have been working with my company for a week trying to resolve this. We've tried the following:
- Altering MTU settings (700 - 1400)
- Turning on/off wireless and connecting via Ethernet
- Turning on/off encryption
- Tried DigiTunnel VPN client
None of this seems to work.
I am able to connect fine via Windows installed on the same MacBook. It's just the MacOS side that disconnects.

Display sleeps only for a moment and then wakes up again

Since some days my display will go to sleep when pressing ctrl cmd eject keys. BUT is wakes up after just 5-15 seconds. It will not sleep automatically.
Screensaver is working fine. Also sleeping of the whole iMac.
Found work around: when I put settings to never sleep display I can manually put the screen to sleep and it stays. This means that there is no process waking up the display sleep. Like to solve it though. Any suggestions are welcome.
Actions tried so far:
Restarted and did a repairing disk permissions.
Resetting PRAM, and resetting the SMC.
Verify and repair disc

deleted: com.apple.PowerManagement.plist and
based on https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2164018?start=0&tstart=0 deleted com.apple.screensaver.plist
Will now reboot

Screen Saver and Display Sleep No Longer Work

My set up:
Mac Pro (stock) w/ 3GB RAM running 10.4.8.
Two ADC displays connected via ADC to DVI adapters
Issue:
Recently I've noticed neither my screen saver nor display sleep work. I can get the machine to sleep manually, but not automatically. My energy settings have the display sleeping after 10 min w/ the computer and HDs never sleeping. Screen Saver is set to go on after 5 min.
My MP used to go into screen saver -> display sleep mode fine. I don't know exactly when the issues started, but probably around 10.4.8. I have not installed any major software recently other than normal Apple updates.
What I've tried:
I've tried resetting the Energy Setting and Screen Saver Prefs and then doing a restart.
If anyone has an idea what is preventing my MP from going into screen saver -> display sleep mode please post. This is driving me nuts.
MacBook Pro 1.83 (7200 HD)/ MacPro 2.66/ mini 1.5Ghz / PBG4 1.25Ghz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Turned out a bad USB device was preventing sleep. Once I removed it the display went to sleep like a baby.

Energy Saver Display Sleep not working after upgrade. Why???

I upgraded to Mavericks a few days ago and since then, the screen will not blank out after the set time on the Display Sleep bar. This happens whether on battery or power. I've run Verify/Repair Disk and Permissions, and still not go. Any suggestions on what else I might do or check to get this going again? Thanks!

What are your screensaver settings? What are your energy saver settings? Will the screen at least go dark or nothing at all? What programs are running? Some programs prevent any kind of sleep while running. I once had an issue on my old iBook when sleep and screensaver where set to 5 min or less and it prevented sleep at all.
There are 2 things that can help if the source is not 3rd party related: first reset PRAM, and if that didn't do anything, reset your SMC (system management controller), but read the linked Apple Instructions, it is recommended to be only used if everything else failed.

External display resolution changes after returning from display sleep

I often use an external display as a second screen with my Macbook Pro (OS X 10.8.2) However, when I return to the computer after the display has gone to sleep, the external display resolution changes when the display reappears. Then I have to go into System Preferences > Display and "Detect Displays" in order to return the external display to the proper resolution.
Does anybody know of a way for me to avoid having to do this every time my display sleeps?
Thank you,
Adam

I have the exact same problem.
I found the key combination ⌘ alt F2 also restores the proper resolution on both displays, however it's still a bit annoying

Windows 8.1 forgets dpi / display size settings for one monitor on almost every reboot

I use TV 32" with 1920x1080 and cintiq 13" with 1920x1080
when I boot my PC the resolution is fine but DPI is wrong.
In smaller monitor It's look like DPI is higher than the bigger one.
I already set dpi to be the same (smallest 100%) but it's not work until I do something to change display setting.
It's really annoy me. This problem is not happen when I use windows 8
Only solution I found is turn off
"Turn on fast start-up".
When I do that It's boot like what I want. every monitor is the same DPI.
But it'll make my boot time longer.
It should be just start up windows and use the same dpi from the start.
So I think this problem is a bug in windows 8.1
Best regards

Thank you for reply.
I've already used the latest graphic card driver. But It's won't help this issue.
In registry editor. I check those variables then value of them is already set like that blog suggest.
So , it look like when windows start-up(with fast start-up) It use something like
suggest value for different monitor size instead of what I set in control panel. But when I turn off fast start-up windows use my setting value.
And I think there are a lot of people who got the same problem as me.
Here is an example.
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-desktop/windows-81-forgets-dpi-display-size-settings-for/385cb615-d699-47f8-8c12-717e3364c866

Display sleep with dual monitor setup

I'm running a 17" studio display and a 20" studio display as a two momitor setup on a dual G5 2.0. The menu bar is on the 17". Unless I have display sleep in energy saver set to never, the 17" will go to sleep at the interval set in the preference panel, even when the system is in use. So far the only way I've found to get the display back off sleep is to put the computer itself to sleep - keyboard shortcut or by using the power button on the 17" and then wake it up.
I think this only started with 10.4.6. I can't upgrade to 10.4.7 yet - I run Avid Xpress Pro on the system and 10.4.7 gives dongle trouble. I've thrown away preference files, set and reset the sleep parameters. As it happens, I've had to reinstall the system a couple of weeks back, but the 17" studio still goes to sleep when it shouldn't.
The problem doesn't occur if the menu bar is on the 20" cinema display, but that's not the way I want it.
Anyone with the same problem,, or better a suggested solution?

finally found the solution (apple i hope your reading
this as this is a mad bug!)
you need to have the dock on the bottom of the main
screen in order to view the image on that screen.
Wierd, I have my dock on the left side of my main screen... which is to the left of my secondary screen. Perhaps you cannot have the dock in-between screens?
kgelner, how have you noticed the performance of your
card when working with aperture? Im seriously
debating upgrading mine as its just slow and annoying
I find it usable but I'm also only working with TIFF files (my camera is not supported). I am also pretty strongly thinking about going with the X800xt card, which should be at least twice as fast. Some operations (like a lot of Spot & Patch repairs combined with Shadows/Highlights) do make things a bit laggy.
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Mac Mini wont' Display Sleep after Yosemite Update

My Mac Mini is no longer going into Display Sleep. Instead I now see the Screen Saver. I have checked System Preferences | Energy Saver and it is definitely set to Display Sleep after 10 minutes (The default). What is interesting is that if I try to change the Display Sleep time (e.g. to 1 hour), when I go back into Energy Saver, it is back to 10 minutes - this doesn't look right! In fact none of the options (e.g. Wake on LAN) seem to stay changed.
This seemed to start after the update to Yosemite 10.10.1 a few days ago - but that might be coincidental. Until then Display Sleep had worked fine.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Nick

This procedure is a diagnostic test. It makes no changes to your data.
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☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
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Paste into the Terminal window by pressing the key combination command-V. I've tested these instructions only with the Safari web browser. If you use another browser, you may have to press the return key after pasting.
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Can I use Hot Corners to make the display sleep immediately?

I have Hot Corners set up so that the screen-saver kicks in as soon as I move the mouse to the top-right corner. However, I'd really like to be able to make the display sleep immediately, rather than show the screen-saver first... can I do that? There doesn't seem to be a Hot Corners option for "Display sleep".

Hi Garth
That can be set using expose.
Open up preferences /dashboard & expose.
Click on one of the buttons to set your option to start screen saver by choosing the corner you wish to use.
Message was edited by: Glenn Leblanc
Sorry, misread your message the first time. Can't be done with hot corners.

"Disable Screen Saver" hot corner no longer prevents Display Sleep

I am not sure whether it started only after I upgraded to 10.5.7, but I certainly have this very annoying issue right now.
I have "Disable Screen Saver" assigned to the top right "hot corner". Some time ago I could place my mouse pointer there in order to prevent activating of "Display Sleep" (as well as gradually dimming before jumping into bed).
It no longer works. I have my pointer in the right corner, and nevertheless the display first dims, then goes to sleep.
Is this only my problem? Any ideas how to fix it? Thanks!

Anybody?

Using iSight to stop display sleep

Hi
I want to use an old 20" iMac as a simple billboard behind a window, showing an iPhoto slideshow, without any user interactivity. That's the easy part.
However, since there won't people to look at the screen all the time, and there may in fact be continuous hours without any onlooker, I would like to turn off the display after some time, using the Energy Saving preferences. The trick is to turn it back on. Since there is no keyboard or mouse (slideshow folder will be updated via VNC or a scheduled script), the only conceivable input method would be the iSight. The trick is therefore to fool OS X into thinking that any motion detected by the iSight is a user interaction that delays or stop display sleep. I don't even want to take a picture when motion is detected.
I researched the various uses of the iSight, and many options are offered to use it as motion detector and security camera. I haven't found anything related to using it as motion detector to simply turn on the screen (or trigger other actions through Automator, for example).
Does anybody have an idea how it can be done?
Another idea would be to use a real motion detector and connect its contact to an old USB mouse button. Less elegant, but workable.
JL

The system does not have a proviso for a "modified half/clamshell mode". If you want the main display off, and the external display on, you will need to attach a keyboard to the computer, and close the display.

Visualizer won't prevent display sleep?

I've seen other posts related to this but haven't found the exact issue, so here goes (and thanks in advance for your insights):
Instead of using appleTV, I hardwired my nice, huge sony tv to my macpro with a DVI-to-HDMI cable. I did this because I like to have the iTunes visualizer running during parties and such (because, APPLE, the ATV won't freaking do it!)
The problem is that the iTunes visualizer apparently doesn't count as "activity," and the displays (including my tv) go to sleep after the interval that I've set in system preferences for display sleep.
I know that I can fix this by simply changing my system preferences when I intend to use my TV in this way, and I know that this isn't hard to do. But I want to make sure that there isn't an option that I've missed.
Is there a way to tell the OS, one time and permanently, not to put the display(s) to sleep if the visualizer is running?
Thanks again y'all!

The same thing happens on both my MacBook Pro (15", late 2011) and Mac Mini running Mavericks. After the screen saver appears, the computer's display won't sleep if the Playstation DualShock 3 controller is either plugged in (via USB) or connected via Bluetooth.
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