turn off screen dim?

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How can I stop the screen from dimming after five minutes of inactivity, because i regularly watch movies over that length and the screen dims whilst they play.
 
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System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Options

Uncheck the box that says dim the screen
 
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System Preferences -> Energy Saver -> Options

Uncheck the box that says dim the screen

i believe you mean the one that says 'Automatically reduce the brightness of the display before display sleep'?

If so, I unchecked that ages ago, but the screen still dims itself....
 
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i believe you mean the one that says 'Automatically reduce the brightness of the display before display sleep'?

If so, I unchecked that ages ago, but the screen still dims itself....

It's a bug in the iMac (as well as the macbooks I believe). You'll need to check and uncheck the box each time you start the computer for it to work. The easy solution would be not to shut down the computer and just put it to sleep (and log out if you like) when you done with it for the day.
 
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It's a bug in the iMac (as well as the macbooks I believe). You'll need to check and uncheck the box each time you start the computer for it to work. The easy solution would be not to shut down the computer and just put it to sleep (and log out if you like) when you done with it for the day.

I have a macbook and don't have that problem.
 
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Aha, my MBP does this, and I didn't realise it was a known bug. Surely they'd issue some sort of fix?
 
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Aha, my MBP does this, and I didn't realise it was a known bug. Surely they'd issue some sort of fix?

that link was from 2006...you'd think they would have fixed the problem with the different firmware updates since then

ummmm....my macbook doesn't have that problem.
 
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I have been having that problem on my MBP,
it is super annoying.
I thought it was just a setting that I had missed
hope apple fixes this
 

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