Various Questions

[Andrew]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 03:47:01 -0500
Derick Centeno <aguilarojo at verizon.net> wrote:

> > 2: Is there a way to tell the screens to dim ... not sleep but dim so 
> > that it doesn't disturb sleeping people?  Screen savers just don't cut it.
> 
> I imagine there would be differences doing this for a laptop.  But I
> haven't seen a dim command or function regarding desktop systems.
> Besides, who needs sleep anyway?? :)

There is "xset s activate" command that is supposed to blank the screen.
On my system the display will get back as soon as I release the [ENTER] key after
issuing the command in a terminal. It will stay dimmed as long as I keep my
finger down on [ENTER] key..