On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Marcus Hagn wrote:
> look for xset. this helps , as the name suggests, only if you are
> running X.
> i ve got somrthing like
> xset +dpms dpms 0 0 300
> in my .xinitrc file. be careful, switching on and off the backlight
> can reduce the lifetime.
Does it mean that if I don't worry about the battery (AC run)
and only about the screen, then I should blank the screen without
turning the backlight off (which, I guess, means not using DPMS at all)?
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 10:59:19AM -0400, Anand Saxena wrote:
> > O Wise Ones,
> >
> > I was wondering if anybody knows how to turn off the LCD screen, which is
> > more than blanking it. I would like to be able to add some sort of an
> > option that will turn off the backlight completely when the laptop has not
> > been used for a certain period of time. Currently, my laptop screen turns
> > black, but the backlight remains on.
> >
> > -Andy Saxena
> >
> >
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Thanks,
Igor.
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