[e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-08-18 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Hi. I have a 17 inches DPMS capable CRT monitor (a SyncMaster 750v). I use Enlightenment 17. I have already set timeouts in Enlightenment for the monitor to go to Standby, Suspend and Off. However: 1) The timeout sometimes is ignored for no apparent reason. 2) More importantly, I would like to b

Re: [e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-08-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> > I have already set timeouts in Enlightenment for the monitor to go to > > Standby, Suspend and Off. However: > > > > 1) The timeout sometimes is ignored for no apparent reason. > > > > Are you using anything else which might want to control your DPMS > settings? No. I do have xautolock and x

Re: [e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-08-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I have another question: I know this is a bit out of scope in this Enlightenment list, but what is the appropriate way of saving energy and maximize the life of a CRT monitor? I know it uses less power when "off" (obviously) but I heard it uses a lot of power when it switches on... so one shouldn'

Re: [e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-08-22 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> > `xset dpms force stanby` works just fine here. > It seems to be working now, for no apparent reason... If if goes back > to the "not working" situation, I'll send another email. It has failed again. And by looking at the mouse pointer, I have seen that it moves rapidly (as if it was shaking). I

Re: [e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-08-22 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> > Just one additional question: when I want to watch TV and the computer > > will be without mouse or keyboard input, I raise the standby timeout. I > > wrote a script for that and bound w to it. > > But I still have to disable the Enlightenment lock screen timeout... > > And enlightenment_remot

Re: [e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-08-22 Thread The Rasterman
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:33:46 -0300 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > > > `xset dpms force stanby` works just fine here. > > It seems to be working now, for no apparent reason... If if goes back > > to the "not working" situation, I'll send another email. > It has failed a

Re: [e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-08-22 Thread The Rasterman
On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 19:00:41 -0300 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > > > Just one additional question: when I want to watch TV and the computer > > > will be without mouse or keyboard input, I raise the standby timeout. I > > > wrote a script for that and bound w to it.

Re: [e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-08-26 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
> > To be able to script the lock screen timeout is specially important. Am > > I supposed to follow menus each time I want to watch TV? If it was > > scriptable, I could bind a key to it, so I would just press a key > > combination when I wanted to increase the timeout. I could even write > > a sc

Re: [e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-08-26 Thread The Rasterman
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:01:45 -0300 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > > > To be able to script the lock screen timeout is specially important. Am > > > I supposed to follow menus each time I want to watch TV? If it was > > > scriptable, I could bind a key to it, so I would

Re: [e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-08-26 Thread David Seikel
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:45:08 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:01:45 -0300 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > > > If I could configure the keybindings through a text file* , > > changing dozens of keybindings woul

Re: [e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-08-26 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:27:35 +1000 David Seikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:45:08 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:01:45 -0300 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > > > > > If I co

Re: [e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-08-26 Thread David Seikel
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:31:07 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 09:27:35 +1000 David Seikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > babbled: > > > On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:45:08 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Su

Re: [e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-08-26 Thread Michael Jennings
On Monday, 27 August 2007, at 07:45:08 (+0900), Carsten Haitzler wrote: > yes - and the bad bit is - this conflicts with code for the config > gui. the fact is that almost every app on the planet provides a GUI > (built in) to configure itself - preferences dialogs for firefox, > settings dialogs

Re: [e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-08-26 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 07:45:08 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In any event, I never thought that enlightenment_remote was complex... > > But I imagine that what makes it complex is the fact that it can > > perform actions; it can immediately alter the behavior

Re: [e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-08-27 Thread Toby Cubitt
Michael Jennings wrote: > On Monday, 27 August 2007, at 07:45:08 (+0900), > Carsten Haitzler wrote: > >> yes - and the bad bit is - this conflicts with code for the config >> gui. the fact is that almost every app on the planet provides a GUI >> (built in) to configure itself - preferences dialogs

Re: [e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-09-08 Thread The Rasterman
On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:27:24 -0400 Michael Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > On Monday, 27 August 2007, at 07:45:08 (+0900), > Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > yes - and the bad bit is - this conflicts with code for the config > > gui. the fact is that almost every app on the planet provides a

Re: [e-users] How to save power in my CRT monitor

2007-09-08 Thread The Rasterman
On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 11:39:15 +0200 Toby Cubitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled: > Michael Jennings wrote: > > On Monday, 27 August 2007, at 07:45:08 (+0900), > > Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > > >> yes - and the bad bit is - this conflicts with code for the config > >> gui. the fact is that almost every