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Poindexter333

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Jul 6, 2010
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NYC metropolitan area
Greetings. Who hasn't opened up their laptop bag to feel it as hot as an oven inside from your laptop waking up? Andy Ihnatko had posted a Terminal tip to disable wake from sleep on open- so a keystroke would be required, avoiding a potential meltdown or drained battery. The command was:
sudo pmset lidwake 0

This worked perfectly all the way through 10.6.7, until Lion, on all my Mac laptops, but no more. I try it and then check status with pmset -g profiles but zippo- the value never changes and of course no effect.

I really want to turn this behavior off- any answers? TIA.
Primarily for the Rev E MBA.
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G4 Cube, IIsi, TiBook 667DVI, MBA Rev A(semi-retired) & E/2011(13"/i5 1.7Ghz/4GB/128SSD Samsung/10.7.1), G5 tower 10.5.8, iPhone 3GS/JB/4.0.1
 
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