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From: Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I turn off text console screen in software?
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 23:19:47
Message-Id: 38ea7c99-1d40-a0ac-ae3a-6801d85fd816@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I turn off text console screen in software? by Walter Dnes
1 On 05/10/2017 04:08 PM, Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 03:36:05PM -0400, Jonathan Callen wrote
3 >
4 >> Additionally, "setterm --blank force" turns the console off immediately.
5 >
6 > Thank you; that's exactly what I was looking for. My script
7 > ~/bin/dark now reads...
8 >
9 > #!/bin/bash
10 > sleep 1 && xset -display :0.0 dpms force off
11 > setterm --blank force
12 >
13 > ...so I can execute "dark" in either X or a true text console, and it
14 > works in both cases.
15 >
16
17 If I may suggest an enhancement, you might want to probe the environment
18 the script is running in so that only the relevant command gets run;
19 unless of course you really do want everything off at once regardless of
20 whether X is running..
21
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How do I turn off text console screen in software? Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>