Unfortunately, it depends on the model of laptop. If you're lucky, your model will have a keyboard shortcut that will turn the screen off and leave it off until you press that key combination again and it works independant of the OS that's running. If you're unlucky, you'll have a model that has a screen off key combination, but any key press is treated as a screen on command and no amount of messing around with OS-level power management or display settings will get the screen to stay off. And if it's possible to fix the latter behavior, I'm pretty sure it would require going into BIOS, and as far as I know, no vendor has ever produced an accessible BIOS. No idea if it was brand-wide policy at the time, if the brands in question still exist, and if policy has changed on newer models if they're still around, but I used to own a well-behaved ASUS netbook and a poorly behaved Acer laptop(I bought the acer to replace the ASUS, but it ended up being a major downgrade in most regards, in addition to the Acer's bab behavior regarding the screen, it was bulkier, had an SD card slot that left the card sticking out(leading to at least one broken card when the laptop bumped against something, the ASUS left the SD card flush with the slot's face), and instead of full-sized arrow keys that used Fn to convert to PageUp/down and Home/End, it had 6 half keys cramed into the space of 3 normal keys that was awkward as heck to use with my thick, sausage link fingers). Anyways, your best bet is to google turn monitor off [model name] to find out what the display off key combo for your model is and see if your laptop is well behaved. If you turn the display off and it stays off as you start typing, congratulations, problem solved. If everything you do cause the monitor to come back on, I'm not sure there's anything you can do beyond impotently complaining to a vendor who apparently doesn't comprehend that someone might want to use their laptop while the monitor is turned off. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list