On Fri, 2018-08-24 at 02:41 +0000, None via users wrote: > Dear Fellow Fedora users, > > I had a script called upon by cron which played music at a certain > time, for example > > 30 08 * * 1-5 ~/.dalarm > > And .dalarm had > > #!/bin/sh > > /usr/bin/xterm -e > /usr/bin/mplayer -really-quiet -shuffle -playlist ~/.playlist > > It worked, but I did have speakers, now. I do not have external > speakers, but a monitor with speakers, if there is no activity with > the mouse, the speakers are not heard and while the script does work, > the monitor is not active, it is on, but inactive. I am using KDE > and I do not know which screensaver is working, the screen blanks and > the monitor goes to sleep. How can I wake up the screen/monitor so I > can hear the alarm playing. I remember trying > $ xset dpms off > Or similar and turn off screen blankinh, but that does not work > anymore. How do I figure out a way to get it working? Not sure if this will still work on a KDE setup, but maybe: /bin/xscreensaver-command -deactivate I found that works to fully wake up the screen when coming out of suspend so that I don't have to touch anything to get the screen back. -- Doug H. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/DPE62LMYPDSI73RAWEB2QYKXOGPJYF3M/
