iMac Screen Dimness

[helloimjoe]

Hi! On my white intel imac, the screen dims after a minute or two of not being used, which is annoying when reading or watching a video. When I set the control for that not to happen it still does... Any ideas?

[mrkramer]

check in system preferences under energy saver, that is the only place that I know of that will control when the screen goes off.

[Turboladdade]

I've heard of this before and I think I recall a permission repair did the trick.

You can also try creating a new user account, logging in, and see if the same symptoms occur. This way you can pinpoint it as a problem specific to your account (and settings, or possible corruption thereof) or a global problem.

[helloimjoe]

It seems that upgrading to Leopard did the trick, it works fine now... weird that Apple never addressed it with Tiger.

[macuser77]

Did it dim while the computer wasn't being used, then a keystroke or mouse movement brighten it back up, or did it just stay dim?

[helloimjoe]

It would brighten back up after moving the mouse, taping the keyboard and such, but I didn't want it to go dim because it was annoying when reading articles and watching youtube videos... but when I turned off the setting to make it do that it still would.