Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1919 mails)

[arunkhan@xxxxxxxx (Arun K. Khan)]

At 01:27 AM 7/14/98 -0400, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
>
>I have been wondering for weeks whether S.u.S.E. or Linux in general has
>energy saving features like a feature to shutdown the monitor when not
>in use.  I know that the monitor shuts down if I leave the system set
>without input at the Linux command prompt.  It doesn't do this while
>running the KDE.  I really wanted to read up on this before I asked this
>list, but I haven't found anything jumping out at me.  Perhaps this is
>something that is handled by firmware below the OS level.  Any thoughts?
>
>Steve

To use X's DPMS you need to add the following to your .xinitrc just before
invoking the Window Manager 

xset +dpms

For more info pls. do "man xset"

HTH
Arun Khan
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