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 > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > public key: http://leute.server.de/hagan/gpg.txt > fingerprint: 07D9 F89B 7762 1515 F85E 49BE 86FB 9197 01B5 401A > Thanks, Igor.
