Monitor Energy Savings

[Bill Fink]

On Sun Apr 14 2002, Nathan Weil wrote:

> That's the thing, under KDE it does work.  However, I don't like KDE,
> and I actually don't use either KDE or Gnome, just Blackbox.  I just
> don't know why KDE can do it, but nothing else?

Hi Nathan,

Check your DPMS settings with:

% xset q
...
DPMS (Energy Star):
  Standby: 1200    Suspend: 1800    Off: 2400
  DPMS is Enabled
  Monitor is On
...

Check the xset man page for full details.  For example, you can force
your monitor off with "xset dpms force off".

						-Bill