using powerbook on x-monitor with lid closed

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Bob - 27 Dec 2006 20:06 GMT

Hello all...

I remember seeing the instructions here for using a powerbook that is
connected to an external monitor with the lid on the PB closed, but I
can't remember well enough to do it now that I need to do it.

My motherboard no longer pumps signal to my onboard display so I have
my PB-G4-1ghz connected to an external monitor and it works fine that
way. Yesterday I got a nice Microsoft wireless keyboard/mouse combo on
sale at Office Depot for $19.99 and that works fine, too. Now I am
wanting to just close the lid on the PB and use the external keyboard
to wake the computer and use it like that.

Would someone be so kind as to post again the directions to have the
display closed and at the same time have the computer respond to the
wireless keyboard?

Thanks buds,
Bob

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John Johnson - 27 Dec 2006 22:03 GMT

> Hello all...
>
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> Thanks buds,
> Bob

Just pressing a key on the keyboard doesn't do it? ISTR that was the way
I did it with a wired keyboard, anyway. I don't recall whether wireless
keyboards would do that or not.

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John

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using powerbook on x-monitor with lid closed