[gpm] How to manually turn off the screen?
- From: Kevin Ross <kevin familyross net>
- To: gnome-power-manager-list gnome org
- Subject: [gpm] How to manually turn off the screen?
- Date: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:40:49 -0700
Hello,
I used to be able to turn off the screen with "xset dpms force off".
But now that doesn't work, the screen only stays off for a few seconds.
The Debian BTS has an open ticket on this
(http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=552506), and they say
we shouldn't use xset, because it will conflict with GPM. They say send
a dbus message to GPM to turn off the screen. So some Googling gives me
this command:
dbus-send --session --dest=org.gnome.PowerManager --type=method_call
/org/gnome/PowerManager org.gnome.PowerManager.setDpmsMode string:off
However, I get an error that setDpmsMode is an unknown method.
So my question is, what is the proper way to programatically turn off
the screen?
Thanks!
-- Kevin
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