turn off laptop screen

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 14:11, Simon wrote:
> Is there a simple command to turn off the monitor/laptop screen? I dont 
> need any other power saving features activated, or a screensaver to run, 
> I just want to turn the laptop screen on and off at a specific time via 
> a crontab.

You can use this
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Ow Mun Heng
Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel
2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive 
Neuromancer 17:27:38 up 8:55, 5 users, load average: 0.29, 0.74, 1.01 
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# Written by Ow Mun Heng
# Oct 15 19:44
# (VERY) Simple executable file to enable screen blanking with one mouse click
# wonder if I can put in a short-cut key

xset -display :0 dpms force off