Re: automatic screen blanking
Am Dienstag, 30. Oktober 2001 10:57 schrieb Russell Coker:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:41, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> > Am Montag, 29. Oktober 2001 07:29 schrieb Russell Coker:
> > > In KDE 1.x there was a kscreenblank process which I could send a
> > > sigusr1 to when I wanted the screen blanked. I used to have a script
> > > called from apmd on suspend to do "killall -USR1 kblankscreen" to lock
> > > the display on my laptop.
> > >
> > > Is there any way of doing this for the latest KDE?
> >
> > Sure, you mean DPMS. Kcontrol -> Energy settings
> >
> > For manual override of those values, take a look at xset
>
> It doesn't do what I want.
>
> xset requires Xauthority which means that I have to know all the details of
> the user logged in ("killall -USR1 kscreenblank" worked without needing to
> know such things).
>
> "xset s activate" blanks the screen for < 1 second (before the screen
> returns to normal). I had this working before, but it only did X screen
> blanking (not KDE screen blanking) and didn't require a password to restore
> the screen. As my aim is to invoke a password lock this is no use.
Hmm, what about those options:
To control Energy Star (DPMS) features:
-dpms Energy Star features off
+dpms Energy Star features on
dpms [standby [suspend [off]]]
force standby
force suspend
force off
(also implicitly enables DPMS features)
a timeout value of zero disables the mode
So a simple "xset dpms force off" should turn off the monitor.
I am not sure if you have to enable DPMS in the XF86Config-4 first, I do.
HS
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