Re: Putting computer on standby or sleep

[Tyler Braun <tyler@chimptrix.chimp.ca>]

I think xset dpms is what you're looking for. Do man xset for the full story,
but if I do:

	xset dpms 0 0 3600

then my monitor powers down after an hour. The first two settings are for going
into a suspend state, where the monitor blanks out but doesn't actually shut
off. Setting them to 0 disables this part, as I want the monitor to go straight
to shutting off. 

To my understanding:
	
	xset dpms 0 1800 3600

would blank the screen after a half hour, and then shut the monitor off
completely after an hour. Anyhow, read the man pages and see what it can do.

I've just recently switched to XFree86 4, and this doesn't seem to work
properly, so if you're using x4 you might encounter problems.

Ty

On Sat Feb 17/2001 @ 12:02:P +0100, Enrico Zini wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to know if (and how) I can make my computer "suspend" so that
> all (most of) is powered down but I can "resume" it and have it in the
> same state it had before the "suspend".  Something like portables do, but
> with a workstation.
> 
> The system is a dual PII-450 on a Supermicro P6DGU 440GX motherboard on an
> ATX power supply, and runs Debian unstable updated every night with kernel
> release 2.4.1.  APM is disabled on multiprocessor systems, ACPI works.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance, Enrico
> 
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