Option to turn off display with Fn + F3

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Option to turn off display with Fn + F3

#1 Post by GomJabbar » Tue May 24, 2011 10:08 am

FYI, I just happened across the option to turn off the laptop display with Fn + F3 as in the older ThinkPads. Open Power Manager (battery icon on the taskbar) and click on the Options tab, then under "When I press Fn + F3" click on the radio button "Power off display". :cool:
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Re: Option to turn off display with Fn + F3

#2 Post by craigmontHunter » Tue May 24, 2011 10:19 am

In addition to that, if you go to the windows lock screen, it will turn off the display regardless of the setting in there - I use that all the time, and it prevents applications from waking up the screen when they have a message.
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Re: Option to turn off display with Fn + F3

#3 Post by gaia » Fri May 27, 2011 3:25 am

craigmontHunter wrote:In addition to that, if you go to the windows lock screen, it will turn off the display regardless of the setting in there...
Isn't this only after the time period you've set for the screensaver interval, whereas Fn+F3 is instant?
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Re: Option to turn off display with Fn + F3

#4 Post by craigmontHunter » Fri May 27, 2011 7:30 am

when you are at the desktop, you can have FnF3 to bring up a menu, which you can use to turn off the screen. If you are at the lock/welcome screen in windows and you press FnF3, it will just turn off the screen, there is no menu or anything that will pop up.
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Re: Option to turn off display with Fn + F3

#5 Post by GomJabbar » Sun May 29, 2011 6:33 am

craigmontHunter wrote:when you are at the desktop, you can have FnF3 to bring up a menu, which you can use to turn off the screen.
If you make the change in Power Manager options that I indicated in my first post, Fn+F3 does not bring up a menu, but rather turns off the screen immediately.

I admit I didn't quite understand what you meant by your first post in this thread, but now I see what you meant with your follow up post.
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