[arch-general] Script to check monitor blank state

"Jérôme M. Berger" jeberger at free.fr
Tue May 25 13:17:29 EDT 2010


Markus wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> i would like to write a little script, that suspends my computer
> if a few circumstances are met.
> 
> One should be, that my screen should be blanked. I already did a google
> search on this, but i only found howtos of getting it to work / disable it.
> 
> It looks like xset q does not print the actual state.
> Maybe there is a hook for screen blanking?
> 
	Here, "xset q" has a line that says: "Monitor is On". Couldn't you
use that?

		Jerome
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