turn off laptop screen

[Simon]

Ow Mun Heng wrote:

> 
> 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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Thanks, ive managed to get the screen to turn itself off via crontab 
using this command, however, i cant get it to turn back on without 
manual intervention. Im using the command

/usr/X11R6/bin/xset -display :0 dpms force on

Which doesnt do anything, although the command registers in the cron 
log. From the man page i think that this command does exist. Am I 
missing something?
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