[clug] Power management/DPMS via CLI

Hal Ashburner hal.ashburner at gmail.com
Mon Sep 14 05:17:50 MDT 2009


On 14/09/09 17:07, Adam Baxter wrote:
> I've currently got my Fit PC hooked up to an LCD TV, and it seems to be
> putting  the display to sleep after a while. I can VNC in and the display
> will turn back on but this is odd because I've got power management turned
> off in Gnome.
>
> I've tried using xset and vbetool to no avail. Is there a command I can use
> to either wake the display up or turn the setting off permanently?
>    

Stab in the dark: Xscreensaver settings does this for me even on a 
system with no known gnome.


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