Re: [orca-list] Some shortcut key to turn off monitor

[Krishnakant <krmane openmailbox org>]

vbetool dpms off does not work on all machines.

Lenovo thinkpad t440 has this issue.

happy hacking.

Krishnakant.



On Tuesday 08 November 2016 02:53 PM, Raphaël POITEVIN wrote:
> As root, vbetool:
> # vbetool dpms off.
>
> On 11/07/2016 10:02 PM, Peter Vágner wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > There is no built-in mechanism to automagically handle this, however
> > there are several ways on how you can accomplish this.
> >
> > If you are using gnome 3 on a laptop, then you can decrease brightness
> > from the top pannel. It does not completelly turn off the screen however
> > I still believe it might be helpfull and / is most straightforward.
> >
> >
> > Then on the Debian Accessibility wiki page there is a section on
> > switching the screen off: 
> > https://wiki.debian.org/accessibility#Screen_off
> >
> > There are various solutions described that might suit multiple users
> > depending of their used environment of choice.
> >
> > For graphical desktop I think the xrandr based script is a very good 
> > idea.
> >
> > It can easily be turned into a sops plugin if you like.
> >
> > See the sops project page at
> > https://github.com/chrys87/simple-orca-plugin-system
> >
> >
> > Greetings
> >
> >
> > Peter
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