Daniel Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > I looked at the debian wiki and use the script provided to turn off the > screen in the GUI and the setterm command to do it for the console. > However I still have some problems. > > 1. How to turn back on the screen (for both methods)? This might be > required on the fly when someone needs to see what I'm doing.
setterm -blank poke should do this for the console, according to the manual page. I don't know about X in this regard. > 3. I no setterm appears to be useless under a screen session. Does this > mean I'll just have to open another virtual console or drop out from the > screen session to toggle the screen on and off if I need too? When you're in a screen session, you're using a psudo-TTY. Setterm requires a real virtual console to set. You could try redirecting its output with the > operator to the virtual console, e.g., /dev/tty1. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
