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

[Peter Vágner <pvdeejay gmail com>]

Hello,

Run
$ xrandr --verbose
to see the current backlight level and more.

Change it as follows
$ xrandr --output <your_display> --set BACKLIGHT <value>

See here for a stack exchange thread explaining in a bit more 
details.... 
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/61256/how-to-change-lcd-intensivity-brightness#61265

Greetings

Peter



On 11.11.2016 at 09:57 Krishnakant wrote:
> I want to know the exact command with xrandar to turn of my screen on 
> unity.
>
> xrandar --brightness = 0 does not work.
>
> happy hacking.
>
> Krishnakant.
>
>
> On Tuesday 08 November 2016 11:35 PM, B. Henry wrote:
> > Oh, I got sidetracked and forgot to say that you can get the monitor 
> > toggle script as part of my fluxable-newmenu package available in the 
> > arch-linux aur.
> > It is available from github if you do not use arch.
> > git clone http://github.com/burt1iband/fluxable-newmenu
> >
> > I need to check in to a couple of things as the branch for distros 
> > that don't fully use systemd, i.e. have no enabled systemctl shutdown 
> > or reboot commands
> > did not seem to be available ladsat I checked, but even if it is not 
> > you can use everything else including the orca configuration item, 
> > gui shutdown, and
> > applications menus on any machine that uses nautilus, pcmanfm, or 
> > caja as it's filemanager.
> > The GUI desktop shutdown menu entry works with XFCE, ratpoison, 
> > fluxbox, Unity, mate, and gnome, and if I remember correctly LXDE.
> > It give one old school categorized applications menus similar to 
> > those found in mate or XFCE which can be helpful for those who use 
> > gnome or unity, and it
> > gives one a way to get at orca prefferences even if they do not have 
> > an insert key to switch to laptop layout or enable the capslock for 
> > orcakey if they
> > forget orca -s.
> > I'll try and get around to seeing what's going on with the 
> > non-systemd branch soon.
> > The branch for those using vinux, Ubuntu, etc is vnx.
> > Master is what you want for Debian, Fedora, Arch and any distro that 
> > fully integrates systemd, and if you can't find the vnx branch will 
> > mostly work on any
> > distro.
>
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