[dundee] interesting problem with new mandrake box

[Mark Harrigan]

Really depends on how desperate you are to shutdown your screen
immediately. If you can survive with it just timing out and turning
off shortly after you lock then you just need to modify XF86Config.

Add the following to the end of your monitor definition:
Option          "DPMS"

and this at the end say

Section "ServerFlags"
        Option "StandbyTime"  "56"
        Option "SuspendTime"  "58"
        Option "OffTime"      "60"
EndSection
(Time is in minutes).

If you want it quicker than 1 min you'll probably have to script lock
in someway.

Mark

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 02:54:26PM +0000, Simon Wells wrote:
> Having just set up a new mandrake 9.1 box running my 17" apple 
> flatscreen from an nvidia based card, I have found myself faced with a 
> dilemma. The controls on the display do not work to turn off the 
> display but I can turn it off using "xset dpms force off". If I do this 
> then I can't lock the workstation because any input wakes the screen. 
> If I lock the box then I cannot turn the screen off. Anybody have any 
> ideas on how to go about this?
> 
> Simon
> 
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