Excerpts from Christoph Rissner's message of 2010-06-18 09:36:27 +0200: > On 05/07/2010 07:16 PM, Isaac Dupree wrote: > > please inform us, what does "xset dpms force off" do? And for what > > circumstances/purpose do you use it? > > Sorry it took so long, I missed your reply. > > "xset dpms force off" is supposed to turn off the screen immediately > using DPMS, at least thats what it seems to do. > I just don't want to suspend (suspend the whole system to RAM) everytime > I close the lid, rather I like it to continue to work on whatever I told > it to do :-) > > Bye > Christoph The syntax of that stuff is weird, but here's what I have, seems to work: # turn off screen powersaving setterm -blank 0 -powersave off -powerdown 0 #turn powersave off xset dpms 0 0 0 xset -dpms #turn screensaver off xset s 0 0 xset s noblank xset s noexpose xset s off -- Regards, Philipp -- "Wir stehen selbst enttäuscht und sehn betroffen / Den Vorhang zu und alle Fragen offen." Bertolt Brecht, Der gute Mensch von Sezuan
