Fix a display dimming problem with MacBook Pro and 10.4 October 28, 2008
Posted by a1291762 in : programs , add a commentApple knows about it but has chosen not to fix this annoying bug for 10.4 users. I haven’t upgraded to 10.5 yet (I’ll probably skip it entirely since Snow Leopard is coming). There’s a work around but it’s annoying to have to do that every time I reboot (which is fairly often these days thanks to gaming via Boot Camp).
I thought to myself, “surely this can be automated”? It turns out that it can.
With a bit of mucking around I’ve come up with an AppleScript that fixes this annoyance. It’s saved as an application bundle, simply add it to your login items and when your machine boots, the appropriate check boxes will be toggled automatically. Note that it requires UI scripting to be on but it does not verify this. I also don’t know how well it’ll go if you’ve got a localised version of Mac OS X.
Get it here.