Hi aguan, Sorry to bother you, but I just realized the screen light up again as soon as you press any key or move the mouse. :( El martes, 15 de marzo de 2016 19:10:12 (CET) J. Pablo escribió:
Hi archers,
First time writer here, reader from quite a time ago. Hi Zack, I used to use this command: $ xset dpms force off and I've just checked it still works from my shell. I don't know if this will suit your needs.
Pablo.
El martes, 15 de marzo de 2016 10:30:52 (CET) Zachary Kline escribió:
Hi All,
One of the perks of being blind is that I don’t need the screen to work. I prefer to keep it off for privacy whenever possible. On earlier hardware, I used to be able to use the vbetool command to turn off the screen. Nowadays that seems no longer to work, “vbetool dpms off,” returns “illegal instruction.”
I was wondering if anybody knew of a way too do this under current versions of Arch? Ideally, I could turn off the screen for both virtual consoles and X sessions, whenever i get around to installing Gnome. I realize this is a bit of an unusual request. Sadly, my laptop doesn’t have any easily identified hardware buttons to do this sort of thing. Thanks for any tips, Zack.