Re: Turning off backlight of TFT display

[Keith Geffert <keith@penguingurus.com>]

Hello Stefan,

I have a Sony Vaio pcg505tr.  To get it to turn off I used xset on my session
startup to change the parameters to let X know that I'm using a DMPS capable
display.

Since I use window maker I added this to my
~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/autostart script.

xset +dpms
xset dpms 0 0 300

This promply turns the screen off after 5 minutes of inactivity.  The man page
will show the rest of the nifty options available.

Keith Geffert


Stefan Bellon wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I've a question concerning the backlight of the notebook's TFT display:
> How can you turn it off after a certain period in order to act like a
> screen (and energy!) saver?
>
> With "apm -s" the notebook suspends properly, so this does work.
>
> With the other operating system the screen saver turns off the
> backlight as well.
>
> But how do you do this under GNU/Linux?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Stefan.
>
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