Screen Tint is a handy utility app that is designed to reduce the brightness of your Mac’s screen, proving particularly useful for users with sensitive eyes and for those that wish to use their Mac in a darker environment, but find that their screen’s brightness to be too harsh. We recommend to use a warm tint when working at night and a cool tint for working in artificial light. Paxon Reyes, Lousy scheduling feature The screen tint feature is what I was looking for. It works on both my monitors. What doesn’t work is the scheduling feature. You’re supposed to be able to set a “shade-on” and “shade-off” (mine is 9 pm and 9 am, respectively).

The keys on the Mac keyboard with the sun symbol control the display brightness. Tap the smaller sun symbol to decrease brightness (if you toggled the way function keys work in the keyboard preferences. You may need to hold down the Alt key when y.

But it looks like the screen tint app only knows to toggle the shade if it’s awake during those times. If the computer goes to sleep with the shade off and then you wake your after the shade-on time, the app doesn't turn the shade on. Likewise, if you put your computer to sleep with the shade on and then you wake your computer after the shade-off time, the app simply leaves the shade on.

To be honest, I bought the app without even knowing the scheduling feature existed but now that I know it’s there and badly implemented, I’m really annoyed with it. Paxon Reyes, Lousy scheduling feature The screen tint feature is what I was looking for. It works on both my monitors. What doesn’t work is the scheduling feature. You’re supposed to be able to set a “shade-on” and “shade-off” (mine is 9 pm and 9 am, respectively).

But it looks like the screen tint app only knows to toggle the shade if it’s awake during those times. If the computer goes to sleep with the shade off and then you wake your after the shade-on time, the app doesn't turn the shade on.

Likewise, if you put your computer to sleep with the shade on and then you wake your computer after the shade-off time, the app simply leaves the shade on. To be honest, I bought the app without even knowing the scheduling feature existed but now that I know it’s there and badly implemented, I’m really annoyed with it.

Click to expand.You must be referring to WindowShade X from Unsanity, which does indeed run in OS X and 'shutters' windows up and down but doesn't have anything to do with brightness. It's actually quite useful for saving screen real estate when you don't want to close or minimize a window. Here is a link for how to find the brightness slider I was talking about:. If you have something other than a a laptop it might help you. The first comment there made me realize why I couldn't find it - I have a MacBook.

I'll try out his suggestion the next time I'm running Windows, but have very little hope that it will work as per responses to the comment. Click to expand.I'm going to assume that question was meant for Sabrina2000, who is the original poster, but yes in my case.

I have yet to try the fn+arrow suggestion on my MacBook in BootCamp, though. I had only tried the key combinations 'the Mac way' before (fn+F1/F2) and that definitely didn't work for me. I'm amazed Sabrina2000 got that to work at all, but maybe that's because it's on an iMac. I was also surprised to see that Windows implements screen brightness differently depending on whether it's installed on a desktop computer or on a laptop.

It *has* been a long time since I had a laptop dedicated to Windows, but I don't remember not being able to find the brightness slider before. Thanks for confirming about shades - I did wonder what it was for yes, I did instal bootcamp drivers ( as far as I know!).and everything else is working fine.except a spell check keyboard issue just discovered this morning which I will mention in a separate thread. I did follow the link posted by marikavs but when I get to colour management all it shows is ' plug and play monitor' and then the box which shows colour profiles associated with this device is blank, with option to 'add'.

That's right - the mac wireless keyboard came with the imac and can work along side the windows keyboard if necessary. How to build unity 2.0 for windows on mac.