turn monitor off and on

[harrismh777]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>> I've never tried turning my monitor on/off without using my finger...

> You've never had your PC turn your monitor off after X minutes of
> inactivity?

I know you're being funny, but actually, no-- I don't.


That's a back-in-the-day thing...   all of my monitors (and I only have 
a couple now because I use VNC to get to the rest of my machines) are 
flat panel LED, very low power, cool, and virtually indestructible. I 
just leave them on... with beautiful screen savers running... which 
aren't screen savers these days either... because nothing really 
burns... more like perpetual light-candy eye-pleasers...

Sure, back in the day I configured my system to shutoff the CRT... but 
honestly, I haven't had a CRT for almost a decade...  you can still 
shutdown the flat panel several different ways on the linux platform 
based on timing if you want to... in BIOS, in the OS, in gnome, using 
the xscreensaver, etc...    but, no, I have never written a code routine 
to shutoff the monitor (my finger always worked just fine).  :)

I wrote a code routine one time just to open the drive bay door, 
timer(), and then close the door... from across the network...   until 
my wife got wise to it, I would open her drive bay door over the 
network... it was fun for a while, even after she got wise to it...


... till the morning I tried it and she had a cup of cocoa sitting on 
the desk in front of the drive bay...


... there have been better days in my house.   :)