Comments on: Fix Blue Tint Wake from Screensaver Mac / Macbook

By: bluetint

bluetint — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:00:18 +0000

interestingly, the blue tint problem on my mac pro went away once I deleted all the third party flash cookies installed on my hard drive, permanently. You can access flash cookie controls at link below. After this I installed Ghostery to block ad tracking in Firefox. Blue tint never happened again.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

http://www.ghostery.com/

By: cwl

cwl — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:18:07 +0000

This is great, thanks. I thought my eyes were going bad because I usually notice it when coming back from lunch after having been out in the sunshine for a while!

By: Gurpartap Singh

Gurpartap Singh — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 06:29:45 +0000

Ctrl+Shift+Eject worked for me!

By: kyoryu16x

kyoryu16x — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 23:33:48 +0000

doing the whole terminal thing did not work and it said i was “not in the sudoers file. this incident will be reported.” .. so whats gonna happen now?
then i tried the ctrl+shift+eject trick, which also did not work. oh and going to the displays preference pane didnt fix the blue screen either.

any more ideas? thanks.

By: William

William — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:33:33 +0000

I used a simple shortcut to fix:
Ctrl + Shift + Eject

The screen will sleep, then move the mouse or press any key to wake again. The color becomes normal again.

By: Ellis Elkins

Ellis Elkins — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:35:26 +0000

Though I do look forward to Apple fixing this.

By: Ellis Elkins

Ellis Elkins — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:34:55 +0000

good idea. Thanks

By: Ben Lam

Ben Lam — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 09:00:11 +0000

Hi Ellis,

I updated this post with a workaround: using Energy Saver - Sleep Display, rather than a screen saver. This method of “screen saving” doesn’t using moving images, rather a lack of any image. More boring, but then again it’s more environmentally friendly and doesn’t “stress” your liquid crystals (yeah, I know I’m reaching with that one).

Best regards,

Ben

By: Ellis Elkins

Ellis Elkins — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 08:12:17 +0000

This is the only post that I found on the net that was helpful with this topic, thanks for putting it up. I tried changing the permissions, but it didn’t keep it away completely. If I test the screen saver and get out of it repeatedly this still shows up. Any more ideas? If not, thanks anyway.

By: btn

btn — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:44:36 +0000

Trippy. This happened to me while I was using VMware Fusion, and an iCal Event Reminder window popped up. Fortunately, opening the Displays preferences pane returned everything back to normal.