Linux has some interface to force an immediate blank (TIOCL_BLANK/UNBLANKSCREEN) or get the blank status (TIOCL_BLANKEDSCREEN), which is useful e.g. for blind people. Setterm should probably provide options for these, which could they be? Samuel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux-ng" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html