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Re: Turn off monitor after inactivity



Sendt: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:26:38 +0100
Fra: Jörg-Volker Peetz
> Maybe, 'setterm' from the util-linx package does what you want.
> I haven't tried it myself.

This should work:
setterm -blank 1
setterm -powersave powerdown
setterm -powerdown 2
setterm -store

The screen does blank after 1 minute, but it does not power down after two (nor
three) minutes. Could be because of kernel bug 12653.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12653

What else could be wrong? Other suggestions?
-- 
Daniel


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