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

["B. Henry" <burt1iband gmail com>]

It may be machine specific, but it also may be due to the kernel and  or graphics stack you are using. 
My 6 year old dells machines can use the vbetool command on Vinux/Ubuntu, even running kernels as new as 4.4, 
but as of asome update around kernel 4.2 to 
4.4, not sure exactly when, it sopped working on arch. Again, it could be related to the graphics support and 
some other updatethat happened along with one 
of those kernel updates.
There is a little script that comes with vinux called monitor toggle that can turn off your monitor, but you 
must be using a gui and have xrandr installed, 
but as this is the orca list we will assume that everyone has a Linux gui. 
Actually I do not start my GUI all the time, so I do have a problem on my arch box. I can sometimes turn off 
the screen using some console config commands, 
but it will come back on in normal use, right away if one is not paying attention,m and pretty much 
inevitably pretty soon, so there is no across the board 
reliable CLI onlyh solution, although tvbe tool works for more users than not still.
  


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  Krishnakant wrote:
Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 05:28:57PM +0530

> 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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