One click monitor power-down for Linux

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 19, 2007 7:09 PM EDT
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If you're running a Linux-powered laptop and you want to switch off the screen, without waiting for the laptop to go into sleep mode, then this is a great tip from Tombuntu. Switch the monitor off instantaneously with the command: sleep 1 && xset dpms force off. Making this into a desktop shortcut is also easy.

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