Portables: turn off sleep light?

does anybody know of an app/trick to turn off the white pulsing light when a powerbook is closed?
Tom Prayne wrote on :

Hi,

does anybody know of an app/trick to turn off the white pulsing light when a powerbook is closed?

TIA

Tom

William Lazarou replied on :

Tom Prayne wrote:

Hi,

does anybody know of an app/trick to turn off the white pulsing light when a powerbook is closed?

TIA

Tom

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Its under the header, Special at the top of the screen---->shutdown!

Geoffrey replied on :

Tom Prayne mailinglists@redacted.invalid wrote:

does anybody know of an app/trick to turn off the white pulsing light when a powerbook is closed?

That feature is controlled by hardware. To de-activated it, you're going to need to perform surgery on your machine to stop the LED from lighting up at all (either by wrapping the LED in something opaque, or removing one lead from the LED).

Geoffrey

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Tom Prayne replied on :

Tom Prayne wrote:

does anybody know of an app/trick to turn off the white pulsing light when a powerbook is closed?

William Lazarou wrote:

Its under the header, Special at the top of the screen---->shutdown!

OS 9 user, huh?

Tom