A mild annoyance 
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I’m still loving the MacBook and have set about having fun with Proxi, as you can see from the previous entry, but I have come across something slightly annoying.
One of the triggers available for Proxi to act on is the Apple Remote although, as those of you with one may know, modern Macs can be put to sleep simply by holding down the play/pause button for 5 seconds. Unfortunately, the positioning of my over-the-bed table that my MacBook sits on when I’m in bed means that the pulsing light that signifies sleep is pointing straight at my face.
“So,” I thought to myself, “all I need to do is set Proxi to shut my MacBook down via my Apple Remote.” (When I’m watching something in bed I’m usually reclined somewhat and am too comfy to want to sit myself up to shut down the normal way.)
I fired up Proxi, dragged the Apple Remote trigger into the Triggers column and set it to fire when the “-” button is held down for 4 seconds — this is doubly useful as it also mutes the MacBook so I don’t get the start-up chime next time I turn it on (it makes me jump sometimes …). The I added an AppleScript task and inserted:
tell application "system events" to shut down
I tested it and everything went as hoped … apart from the fact that now my MacBook doesn’t respond to any button presses on my Apple Remote apart from the one I’ve just set up in Proxi. Eh?
And that’s it. I’ve tried to fix it but nothing works — the only way to get normal functionality from my Apple Remote is to disable the Proxi trigger.
I can find nothing on the ‘net to help me and Griffin Technology’s own site has nothing to offer, either.
Darn.
You could write a script where the macbook boots itself into Windows XP ….and then promptly crashes..
- tugger
Remote Buddy has this option I belive. It adds hundreds of controls to your remote, including the ability to shut it down.
Timmargh, the Utopia is mac-forums.com - Stretch
Stretch: cheers!
Tugger: *slap* - Timmargh
Many years ago, I used a piece of automation software on DOS based PCs that was capable of intercepting machine interrupt requests. One of the things that we always had to make a point of doing was to pass the interrupt back to the system after we’d run our own code (if any) for that interrupt.
I’m not familiar with the stuff you are using here but it sounds to me like you’ve told to Proxi to intercept triggers from the remote, respond to the “-” button, and do sod all with any other triggers. Is there a way to tell it to pass any other triggers back to the ‘default system’? - McV
And Timmy? Why don’t you join us at Mac-Forums? We’d love to have you with us. :^D - MHC
Darn. Didn’t leave you the link! *Head hits desk*
Mac-Forums. - MHC
I remember reading somewhere that there was some hack to disable the flashing light when sleeping.
- LobsterMan
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