How can I keep the Mac running (not going to sleep) with its display turned off without having to go to Energy Saving settings to set display sleep to low and computer sleep to high?
I tried the caffeinate
command and Caffeine software with no luck – both work OK (prevent the computer to go asleep) with display ON, but as soon as I turn the monitor off with Ctrl+Shift+Eject the computer goes asleep in a minute too, ignoring the caffeinate.
I use the computer as file server, so I need it to keep running, but having the display turned on is unnecessary.
Can you suggest an application?
Best Answer
Did you try
caffeinate -s
?If there was some way to check if displays have been put to sleep, you could run a script every minute that would temporarily change
pmset sleep
to 0 during display sleep.