Hi archers, First time writer here, reader from quite a time ago. Hi Zack, I used to use this command: $ xset dpms force off and I've just checked it still works from my shell. I don't know if this will suit your needs. Pablo. El martes, 15 de marzo de 2016 10:30:52 (CET) Zachary Kline escribió: > Hi All, > > One of the perks of being blind is that I don’t need the screen to work. I > prefer to keep it off for privacy whenever possible. On earlier hardware, I > used to be able to use the vbetool command to turn off the screen. Nowadays > that seems no longer to work, “vbetool dpms off,” returns “illegal > instruction.” > > I was wondering if anybody knew of a way too do this under current versions > of Arch? Ideally, I could turn off the screen for both virtual consoles and > X sessions, whenever i get around to installing Gnome. I realize this is a > bit of an unusual request. Sadly, my laptop doesn’t have any easily > identified hardware buttons to do this sort of thing. Thanks for any tips, > Zack.
