However I don’t understand what makes Dorico so different from other DAWs and Notation programs that it needs to work like this. Why have you decided to apply a technique with this behavior when no one else to my knowledge does that? What are the benefits? I’m sure many of us want to take brake now and then without having to shut down the application each time.
Where was I? What was I doing before the break? Oh, I forgot about that Expression map I was working on. Etc.
Dorico doesn’t prevent screen savers from coming on (my own screen saver comes on after five minutes, and I always have Dorico running on my Mac). It prevents your computer from going to sleep, because it is running a real-time audio engine. In this regard it is the same as Cubase.
If you want your computer to sleep, by the way, you can tell it to sleep, and it will. On macOS, you do that by choosing Sleep from the Apple menu. It’s possible to do on Windows as well, via the power options in the Windows menu.
As a Windows user, it’s been decades since I used an actual screen saver. Windows power settings let you specify a “Turn my screen off after” setting, and I always just use that. Note that this is different from the sleep and hibernate settings.
When Dorico is running, Windows will not turn my screen off.
Sure, but turning the screen off will accomplish the same thing.
I was just teasing out the differences on Windows between sleep, screen saver, and turning off the screen, since we’re talking about how Dorico affects them.
Of course. I thought about that because another app (Illustrator) has been preventing both screen off and screen saver start on macOS for a few months now. Automatic Sleep on Mac is tied to “screen off”.
Dorico has only (and always) prevented screen off, with the consequence of this being that it disallowed sleep. On Mac, in Activity Monitor, one can see that Dorico shows “No” in the “Prevents Sleep” column!
Apologies if this comes off as being a jerk. But who really uses a screen saver. Screen burn has not really been a thing for many years now.
I guess maybe I’m just a bad environmentalist as I just leave my computer run 24/7 and never turn off the screen except for when I’m done for the day. I set my screen off time for like 2 hours. Probably comes from years working in live performance where we set out computers to never go to sleep and never turn the screen off.
I do, because I don’t want to look at a bright screen all the time, but at the same time I want something to remind me the computer is on. I don’t let it run 24/7.
Exactly. How many are using a Plasma Screen or an OLED for a computer monitor? Very few I would assume. It also says if you let a still image sit on the screen for “multiple days”. In other words this is really only an issue for video displays that are being used in public spaces that have lots of static information on them, like in an airport or train station or a live performance venue where you might have border images or other parts of the screen that are static with only small parts of the screen being updated. I actually work in professional AV design. I’ve seen it happen displays like I just described. I’ve never seen it happen on someone’s personal computer monitor or their home TV sets, etc…
In the context of this forum, it’s essentially a non issue and not something anyone should be concerned about. Unless I guess you really are looking at a static image of Dorico for “multiple days”. In which case, I think you might have other issues to solve. LOL
I got the impression that you are of the opinion that screen burn can never happen. Therefore I needed to check this up myself. Then I thought I should share this information with you as a gesture of courtesy, since I couldn’t tell from your post what kind of monitors you have.
Fair enough. It’s good to have the proper information and worth sharing. If folks enjoy using a screen saver, by all means, carry on. It’s their computer. There just isn’t really a need for it like in the CRT days or if someone was using a Plasma for a computer, except in very specialized circumstances. And most of the end users or owners in those special circumstances don’t really care. The screen will get some burn in but few will notice since displaying static info is the displays lot in life. And by the time the damage is really done, they’ll probably be buying new displays anyway or the display will fail from some other issues.
I’ve come to the conclusion that if I want to “save” the screen when Dorico is open, the best option is to use the standby switch on the front. That way I won’t get logged out nor having issues with the audio interface, which may be the case if I put my PC to sleep.
In which case, I think you might have other issues to solve. LOL