Re: [gpm] how to force screen to go off

[Marin Krkač <marin krkac inet hr>]

On 11.12.2009 09:26, Laurent Martin wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to force my screen to go in sleep mode.
> (because the off button is broken).
> I used to do:
> xset dpms force off
>
> but due to a change in gnome-power-manager (I use 2.28.1) , I guess,
> this does not work anymore:

> Any plan, hints, etc... to get into force screen off mode ?

You could try using xrandr. I'm not sure how it works internally, maybe 
it actually does the same thing, but that's what I use.

Run
$ xrandr
to see which outputs you have. In my case it's VGA1 and LVDS1.

Then turn it off like so:
$ xrandr --output LVDS1 --off
or
$ xrandr --output VGA1 --off

And one way of turning it back on again is this:
$ xrandr --output LVDS1 --auto