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Lance Albertson wrote: |
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> Sven Wegener wrote: |
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>>Just to make sure, you're doing this on a remote machine over an SSH |
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>>connection? setterm will echo the control characters to stdout so you |
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>>have to redirect them at the console, e.g. |
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>>setterm -blank 0 >/dev/tty1 |
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>>Hope this helps. |
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>>Sven |
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> |
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> I tried it here on a machine at work on the console and it didn't appear to |
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> work. Unless I missed some option. |
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No option missed, but your current terminal (ssh pty, mostly TERM=xterm) |
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lacks support of the blank extension. That's why they are not echo'ed |
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when invoking setterm -blank, the following should do the trick: |
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TERM=linux setterm -blank 0 >/dev/tty1 |
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