Sleep Display, put your monitor to sleep instantly

i've tried sleep display and lightme both without energy savings settings set to never. the screen wakes up after 10 seconds maximum when i am running logic pro. any ideas anyone???

You should really check out LightMe.
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/24583

It doesn't work for me for me either, even after i changed all my energy savings sleep settings to anything other than Never.

Fantastic idea for an app. I'm wondering how it does it immediately, though; pmset didn't seem very favorably inclined towards an instant activation ...

I've been waiting for this feature to use with my Dell monitor for just over a year now. That's when I switched from Windows and had an app to do a similar thing. Now I've mapped it to one of the extra F-keys using Quicksilver. Works like a charm!

I like this little app a lot, but I also use Jiggler to prevent my computer from sleeping when music is playing. This creates a problem when I use Sleep Display and Jiggler at the same time (such as when i am listening to music as i go to sleep). Jiggler will inevitably wiggle my mouse which then wakes up the display. Does anyone have any other solutions to preventing the mac from sleeping other than jiggler, or changing my power settings?

Cool! I got the widget version. This is the best thing I've found on the internet in a month. Thanks, TUAW!

Ah, finally an app that actually sleeps the display! I always dim my screen normally, but this doesn't actually turn it off (only the backlight.) This app is much preferred.

At first I thought, what's the point of this since it takes a second or two to launch the app or widget, which is exactly how long it takes to press and hold the display-dim key until the display goes off. But then I realized the real time savings comes when you wake the display back up again, which is almost a full second faster this way.

It doesn't work for me, even if i set my display sleep settings to anything other than never