Shortcut to put display only to sleep?

Question

hi all --
i have my iMac in my bedroom and like to fall asleep to iTunes at the end of the night. I have my display sleep settings set to "30 minutes" for regular use during the day. When i turn iTunes on at night i'd like the screen to go to sleep right away.
Is there an easy way to do this -- like with a keyboard shortcut -- other than annoyingly going back every night and changing the display sleep prefs to 1 minute?
many thanks,
michael

Answer 1

" Can you think of any way of modifying the script so it is "one time only"?"
Well, it's getting a little ugly but something like this might work:<pre>set old to (do shell script "pmset -g|awk '/displaysleep/ {print $2}'")
do shell script "pmset force displaysleep 1"
delay 90
do shell script "pmset force displaysleep " & old</pre>It would be nicer if I could find an option to put the display to sleep immediately, but one minute seems to be the minimum. The script sets the display sleep timer to one minute, waits 90 seconds, then sets the displaysleep interval back to what it was before. This means that if you don't commence your one minute period of inactivity within 30 seconds, the setting will go back to what it was before, and the display won't sleep until then. The 90 second interval could be made longer, but running a counter for a long period is somewhat inelegant. There's probably a better way...