On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 15:12, Gayle wrote:
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>
> Ok, thanks for that. This almost does the trick...
>
> if xset q|grep -q "Monitor is On"
> then
> xset dpms force off
> else
> xset dpms force on
> fi
>
> The only niggle I have now is that the screen is blank when it comes ba
> > Write a script to grep the output from "xset q" output, and run the same
> > command with the appropriate on/off argument. Unfortunately "force on"
> > doesn't seem to work for me :-(
>
> Ok, thanks for that. This almost does the trick...
>
> if xset q|grep -q "Monitor is On"
> then
>
On Sunday 27 February 2005 19:36, Stephen Boddy wrote:
> On Sunday 27 February 2005 19:12, Gayle wrote:
> > My Myth box runs 24/7 so I don't want to power it off when I stop
> > watching TV/whatever so I have irexec running in the background with the
> > power button mapped to "/usr/X11R6/bin/xset
On Sunday 27 February 2005 19:12, Gayle wrote:
> My Myth box runs 24/7 so I don't want to power it off when I stop watching
> TV/whatever so I have irexec running in the background with the power
> button mapped to "/usr/X11R6/bin/xset dpms force off" in order to send the
> monitor to sleep. Howev
My Myth box runs 24/7 so I don't want to power it off when I stop watching
TV/whatever so I have irexec running in the background with the power button
mapped to "/usr/X11R6/bin/xset dpms force off" in order to send the monitor
to sleep. However, I can only bring it back to life again by pressi
