[arch-general] Turning off the screen for privacy
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.
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.
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.
Using the `--off` option in xrandr seems to work for me: $ xrandr --output DVI-1 --off You can list your available outputs and their status using the plain `xrandr` command, I suspect what you'll be looking for on a laptop is an output like LVDS. There are also GUIs for this, such as arandr, in case that's a better option (please forgive my ignorance regarding blindness accessibility...). /Emil On Tue, 15 Mar 2016 at 19:13 J. Pablo <elfio@hiperones.es> wrote:
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.
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Emil Lundberg
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J. Pablo
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Zachary Kline