Hi aguan, Sorry to bother you, but I just realized the screen light up again as soon as you press any key or move the mouse. :( El martes, 15 de marzo de 2016 19:10:12 (CET) J. Pablo escribió: > 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.
