Re: crontab + "xset dpms"

[Frank Barknecht <barknech@ph-cip.uni-koeln.de>]

Seth R Arnold hat gesagt: // Seth R Arnold wrote:

> I would like to set my monitor power off times to be different during
> the night than during the day. To this end, I have added the following
> lines to my crontab (output with crontab -l):
> 
> 0       10      *       *       *       xset dpms 3600 0 0
> 30      0       *       *       *       xset dpms 300 0 0 
> 
> Other lines in my crontab file get run (two include an Esetroot to
> change my root background in X every two hours) -- so I am rather
> mystified why this won't change the timeout values. Using these commands
> by hand works just fine.

Maybe try with the full path:

0       10      *       *       * /usr/X11R6/bin/xset dpms 3600 0 0

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