Bug#568555: xserver-xorg: DPMS "off" doesn't stick
On Don, 2011-08-18 at 08:37 +0200, Stephen Kitt wrote:
>
> I'm experiencing the same symptoms as the original submitter. I've
> tried watching all the input devices (using evtest) while executing
> "xset dpms force off", but the display always comes back without there
> being any input event registered.
Are you running it like
sleep 1; xset dpms force off
? Otherwise, one common issue is that xset runs when the enter key goes
down, and then the key up event immediately disables DPMS again.
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