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How do I lock my Mac and have the monitors turn off?
It might be worth trying a Hot Corner.
My own Mac is set to never sleep, just to switch off the displays after some time unattended, then lock.
However, there are some apps - specifically for me ...
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How do I lock my Mac and have the monitors turn off?
Check what apps you are running, this happens to me sometimes when either:
I am using a browser to streaming videos (YouTube, Amazon Prime, Netflix, etc).
I have been on a Video or Audio call: Zoom, ...
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Mac's time keeps changing back 15 days
One day my laptop accidently ran out of battery completely and was dead. It was dead overnight and in the morning when i plugged the battery back up and it started up the time issue got resolved by ...
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External monitor stays on when MacBook Pro is in sleep mode
I had the exact same problem with my LG 35wn75c. MacBook Pro connected via USB-C (DP alt mode), but no dock.
What fixed it for me was changing this setting Battery > Options > Wake for network ...
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Check if display sleep on Apple Silicon in Bash
I wrote a small Objective-C program that may be helpful.
It will return the current display sleep/wake status or the screen lock status via exit code (0=sleeping/locked, 1=awake/unlocked).
Tiny ...
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Check if display sleep on Apple Silicon in Bash
Ok, maybe I have found a solution.
With Apple Silicon there isn't IOPowerManagement inside the IODisplayWrangler section. I had to look for the information in another way and I found system_profiler ...
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