Very Computer

Hello,

does someone know about a utillity (or a feature of FBSD) that would
allow the monitor to go to sleep after a while?

I run FBSD 3.1 with KDE 1.1.1. I have a recent monitor that should
support any power management.

Is there a port or something, does KDE offer this? What are you using so
your screen is not glowing for 10 hours a day?

Thanks!
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Marc Andre Paquin

Well, in your XF86Config file, you should put

options "power_saver".

Also, I believe you could also do xset +dpms to activate this feature
after you start X.  Check out the man page for `xset'.

- Donn

I have successfully used IndexFinger.  When IndexFinger is applied to
MonitorSwitch the screen goes dark.  Next time IndexFinger is applied to
MonitorSwitch the screen glows again.  Ohh, the magic of technology.

Very funny 8-)

Quote:>Hello,

>does someone know about a utillity (or a feature of FBSD) that would
>allow the monitor to go to sleep after a while?

>I run FBSD 3.1 with KDE 1.1.1. I have a recent monitor that should
>support any power management.

>Is there a port or something, does KDE offer this? What are you using so
>your screen is not glowing for 10 hours a day?

No "port or something" needed.  xset can take care of this for you.
If you run it without parameters from the command line, you'll see
(among other things) the following:

   To control Energy Star (DPMS) features:
        -dpms      Energy Star features off
        +dpms      Energy Star features on
         dpms [standby [suspend [off]]]    
              force standby
              force suspend
              force off
              (also implicitly enables DPMS features)
              a timeout value of zero disables the mode

Just add the necessary commands to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0
(if you're using xdm), or your ~/.xsession file.
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