Disable Sleep

Im not sure if any of you have acciendtly closed your laptop then opened it to a black screen.(happened a little to many times to me). If it has then i have found a solution to turn off the sleep ability, InsomniaX. Its available here http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/22211, it give you the ability to disable sleep so you wont accidently restart your laptop anymore.

 

awesome! ive used my one as an mp3 player on the odd occasion.. i assume it turns the monitor off?

 

It does.

 

or you can do what i do, and not install the clamshell kext

 

You can also disable 'sleep' in settings too. No 3rd party software required.

 

Like that one too

 

Yes, the "normal" sleep but not the auto-sleep function when you close the lid. My one will go to sleep when I close the lid and when I open it again it will hang on a black screen. InsomniaX disables sleep, so you can close and open the lid without any problems.

Has someone tested only to put the InsomniaX.kext in the system library folder to start InsomiaX (disable sleep) on boot without to start the software, because I hate this crazy menu icon.

 

sudo pmset -a disablesleep 1

 

This doesn't work on my setup! When I close the lid, he falls to sleep and dies.
When I type pmset -g, I get this ouput:

Code:

MacBook-nano:~ Leo$ pmset -g
System-wide power settings:
 SleepDisabled		1
Active Profiles:
Battery Power		-1*
AC Power		-1
Currently in use:
 sleep		0
 displaysleep	0
 powerbutton	0
 hibernatefile	/var/vm/sleepimage
 hibernatemode	0
 disksleep	0
 ttyskeepawake	1 

What did I wrong?


EDIT (Oct 16, 2008):
It only disabled the sleep button in the apple menu.

 

I'm trying InsomniaX, how does one have an app start automatically on next boot?

 

Umm i may be somewhat uneducated on this, but cant you delete the clamshell.kext, instead of dealing with insomnia.kext