When you make the Mac go to sleep but it just stays on with the screen black, you can use the
pmset -g
to display you current power management settings and see the entry for sleep that will tell you the problem causing process PID
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Quake Style Drop Down Terminal for Mac
Update: Visor Terminal is now TotalTerminal. It’s a lot easier to configure so you can just download TotalTerminal and perform the steps below starting at 6.
The Visor Terminal, one of my most used hack-features. This guide helps you put your Mac Terminal to the zenith of usability and convenience.
Visor Terminal
The drop-down Quake-style terminal window is extremely convenient to run commands without disrupting the current workflow. Unfortunately the default install is very messy. It needs an open terminal program running in the background which can’t be closed and takes up valuable Dock space. Continue reading