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Why is there no way to turn off the screen on an iMac? I mean, properly turn it off?

As Game Center opens, scroll down and find out the option Game Center. There is a slider below it. To turn off the feature, move the slider to the left. Game Center is an app made by Apple that comes pre-installed on all new iPads, iPhones, iPod as well as Macs with Mountain Lion or higher. As the name would imply, it’s a center place for all your games. Game Center brings a social aspect to the way you play games and keeps track of achievements as well as the leaderboards. Below this is the rant I recently posted, but after I upgraded my Mac to Big Sur I realized that I can now turn off 'Super Moves' Doing this turns this game into a really fun game to play. I love it now and will reinstall it in my dock. THANKS FOR THE UPDATE!!! I really love playing Solitaire City FreeCell, but it is not available on the new Macs.

It’s not something I thought about when I was thinking about buying an iMac – I just assumed it would have such a basic feature. For something that’s generally well designed and usable, this omission sticks out like a sore thumb.

I’m sure lots of people have their own reasons for turning off their computer screens. Here’s mine.

I run 3 types of nightly backups on my Mac (I’m paranoid). One does a rotating backup to DVD. One does an rsync backup to my wife’s iMac. And one does an rsync backup of our server in the UK (in case it ever goes tits-up).

And in a few months’ time, my iMac will be in the bedroom (I’m being turfed out of the office so we can turn it into a nursery for our upcoming wee nipper). So you can see why having the screen off might be a good idea. IN THE BEDROOM.

Here are the solutions I’ve heard from various people:

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• Just put the iMac to sleep. Er, then how are the backups supposed to work?
• Turn the brightness all the way down. You’d think that’d work, wouldn’t you? But oh no – unlike Mac laptops, where zero brightness really does turn off the backlight, an iMac’s idea of “zero brightness” is “ever-so-slightly darker than maximum brightness”. Useless.
• Set the display to sleep in 1 minute. There are even scripts available to do this for you (and reset the sleep time back to normal afterwards).

Setting the display to sleep is not a bad approach, apart from two fundamental problems. Firstly, I don’t want the screen to turn off in 1 minute – I want it to turn off now.

Secondly – and more seriously – it’s not reliable. What I mean is, the screen spontaneously and randomly turns itself on. This seems to happen when certain specific activities occur during the backup process – spinning up the DVD seems to do it, as does network activity. (I’m still trying to pin down exactly what triggers set it off.)

As you might imagine, having a gorgeously brilliant white screen is wonderful when you’re working on it during the day. It’s not so nice when it turns itself on at 3AM in your bedroom.

So that’s the current situation. Apart from cracking open the iMac and installing a manual switch for the backlight, the best I can hope for it probably to put a towel over the thing at night. Ridiculous for such an otherwise well-designed machine. If you’re thinking about buying an iMac, and you want it doing stuff with the screen off overnight, I suggest you heed this warning. Memo to Apple: Fix this. Now.

If anyone has a decent solution, please tell me. I would absolutely love to hear it.

UPDATE May 2: Found a way to sleep the display instantly. 🙂

October 16, 2015 Update: If you’re running OS X 10.11 (El Capitan), you’ll need to disable the System Integrity Protection functionality if you want to hide or remove Game Center.

Using fullscreen mode with Apple News in macOS Mojave. When you press Control + Command + F it puts the current app in fullscreen. To take it out of fullscreen mode, just press those keys again. If you get a blank built in monitor after going full-screen on an external one. Put the app you still want to use (like Safari for example) in full screen mode on built in monitor BEFORE putting your game full-screen on an external one. This way you can play your games full. Exit Full Screen. To exit Full Screen mode, do one of the following: Press Command-Control-F simultaneously. Move the pointer to the top of the screen until the macOS menu bar appears and click View Exit Full Screen. Navigate between Mac and virtual machine. To switch between virtual machine space and macOS use one of the following actions. IF possible, rather than play the game's built in fullscreen mode, play in windowed and then use the arrows at the top right corner on the window, the using f3 (on a desktop it may be different on a laptop but it looks like three different sized windows next to each other) and selecting desktop or the game. How to exit fullscreen game.

One of the first things I noticed when looking around OS X 10.10 (Yosemite) was the Game Center icon in the Applications folder.

How To Turn Off Game Center On Mac Computer

Game Center has been in Mac OS X since 10.8 (Mountain Lion), but the icon recently changed to match the bubbly iOS icon:

I never really use Game Center on iOS and am always annoyed with the spammy friend requests. I’ve turned off Game Center friend requests multiple times, but it always seems to get turned back on.

How To Turn Off Game Center On Mac Desktop

Once I saw Game Center in Yosemite, I immediately tried to drag the icon to the Trash. No luck:

It took a couple minutes, but I figured out how to remove it. Here’s how your remove Game Center:

Warning! Don’t do this unless you’re comfortable with the command line and have a recent backup of your hard drive. If you don’t know what sudo means, then please don’t proceed. A simple mistake with sudo rm could cause major issues.

– Open Terminal
– Navigate to the Applications folder
– Enter the following:

sudo rm -rf 'Game Center.app'

That’s it!

Game Center Srbija

After removing Game Center, I restarted my computer. Game Center didn’t reappear and everything is seems fine. So far. There are probably some ramifications if you try to play Mac App Store games that support Game Center, but I’m not sure. And now I’m wondering if Game Center will reappear then next time I update OS X. Regardless, it’s nice to be rid of that extraneous icon 🙂

How To Turn Off Game Center On Mac Catalina

Otherwise, I really like Yosemite. It’s really snappy (on a wiped 2012 MacBook Air).