[Gambas-user] Monitor on/off

[Jussi Lahtinen]

Thanks! Great!

Jussi

On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Jose J. Rodriguez <joe1962 at ...626...> wrote:
> On 2/19/09, Jussi Lahtinen <jussi.lahtinen at ...626...> wrote:
>>
>>  Anyone know how to turn monitor on/off from Gambas?
>>  Thanks!
>>
>
> I had this tip saved for a while now, which seems to work so far:
>
> <quote>
> One click monitor power-down for Linux
> By Alastair Otter
> 19 December, 2007
>
> If you're running a Linux-powered laptop and you want to switch off
> the screen, without waiting for the laptop to go into sleep mode, then
> this is a great tip from Tombuntu.
>
> To switch the your monitor off use the command: sleep 1 && xset dpms force off.
>
> The sleep 1 (wait for one second) is needed only when you are typing
> the command in a terminal. This is because the command is executed as
> soon as the enter key is pressed, when it lifts up X turns the monitor
> back on.
>
>
> To turn this into a Linux desktop shortcut, right-click on your
> desktop and select "create new launcher".
>
> The "command" setting must be set to "xset dpms force off" (without
> the sleep 1).
> </quote>
>
> Regards,
> Joe1962
>
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