How to swith off one screen in dual screen mode

[Lucagfc]

Hi

I want to use my i7 as MediaPlayer using Boxee. So I've connected to iMac video out a Plasma TV. There a way tp switch off only the iMac monitor when I'm watching some video on my TV? this is a very big problem!

[hogben]

On our macbook pro we turn the brightness all the way down, the last setting turns the display off.

You could set your powersaving mode to turn off the display after 1 minute.

Or in expose set a corner to turn off the monitor.

[Lucagfc]

i' m using an iMac and if i try to swith off the monitor with the active corner also the second display plugget do the mini display port connector switch off !

[denialmark]

Hi
I want to use my i7 as MediaPlayer. So I have connected to iMac video out a Plasma TV. There a way tp switch off only the iMac monitor when I'm wathing some video on my TV?
This is a very big problem!

[infomofo]

you should be able to turn off the iMac monitor using "ctrl-shift-eject" on a keyboard attached to the iMac.

[Tallowby]

you should be able to turn off the iMac monitor using "ctrl-shift-eject" on a keyboard attached to the iMac.

This will disable all monitors

[aclindley]

This week I wish to try something which i just read in a related thread (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=17286). The 3rd post (http://forum.boxee.tv/showpost.php?p=95583&postcount=3) suggests that the boxee settings might allow us to choose the default display.

>Go to Settings->Appearance->Screen->Resolution to select the secondary screen.

edit: Confirmed it works two days ago!

I'm using a mac mini with dual display out as well. My primary interest was to force boxee to the 2nd display connected to Plasma via hdmi (mini display port to dvi adapter and a dvi to hdmi cable from monoprice).

I had mixed luck in extended display mode by switching boxee to windowed mode ("\"), dragging boxee to the second display then maximizing the boxee window via the OSX green "+" button. The problem was the screen didn't fit perfectly and cropped the edges. Additionally, in the Appearance settings I was unable to do advanced calibration because boxee thought it was still the smaller window so I couldn't move the corners to the true corners of the plasma display.

[VieraNoob]

This week I wish to try something which i just read in a related thread (http://forum.boxee.tv/showthread.php?t=17286). The 3rd post (http://forum.boxee.tv/showpost.php?p=95583&postcount=3) suggests that the boxee settings might allow us to choose the default display.

>Go to Settings->Appearance->Screen->Resolution to select the secondary screen.

edit: Confirmed it works two days ago!

I'm using a mac mini with dual display out as well. My primary interest was to force boxee to the 2nd display connected to Plasma via hdmi (mini display port to dvi adapter and a dvi to hdmi cable from monoprice).

I had mixed luck in extended display mode by switching boxee to windowed mode ("\"), dragging boxee to the second display then maximizing the boxee window via the OSX green "+" button. The problem was the screen didn't fit perfectly and cropped the edges. Additionally, in the Appearance settings I was unable to do advanced calibration because boxee thought it was still the smaller window so I couldn't move the corners to the true corners of the plasma display.

This is not at all relevant. The issue isn't displaying boxee on a secondary screen (which is extremely easy and documented elsewhere), it's turning off the iMac's primary display while boxee is running. There needs to be a fix for this before it is really desirable for me to use boxee on my HDTV/iMac. I wish the developers would get on that.