turn off laptop screen

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 10:25, Simon wrote:
> 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?

I'm not sure but I usually have to wake it up by manual intervention.

Moving the mouse, stuffs like that.. 

what exactly is your requirement such that you need crontab to actually
turn it on and off?

Sound funny to me.

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Ow Mun Heng
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