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
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. However, I
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 dpms
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
xset dpms force
On Sun, 2005-02-27 at 15:12, Gayle wrote:
[snip]
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 back on,
I
