> > I have already set timeouts in Enlightenment for the monitor to go to
> > Standby, Suspend and Off. However:
> >
> > 1) The timeout sometimes is ignored for no apparent reason.
> >
>
> Are you using anything else which might want to control your DPMS
> settings?
No. I do have xautolock and xlockmore installed, but they are not running at
the moment, and I can verify that by issuing ps aux | grep xauto or ps aux |
grep xlock
> > I remember I could do that with "xset dpms force standby", but nowadays
> > if I try that, the screen blanks for half a second and immediately goes
> > back to normal.
>
> `xset dpms force stanby` works just fine here.
It seems to be working now, for no apparent reason... If if goes back
to the "not working" situation, I'll send another email.
> E uses the same calls xset does internally.
Interesting.
> > 2.2) Or even better, can I use Enlightenment itself to make the monitor
> > enter standby immediately?
>
> - a shell script with `xset dpms force standby` bound to a key?
I wrote this
#!/bin/sh
enlightenment_remote -lock-desktop
if [ "${1}" == "standby" ]; then
xset dpms 120 420 540
sleep 2
xset dpms force standby
sleep 545
else if [ "${1}" == "suspend" ]; then
xset dpms 120 420 480
sleep 2
xset dpms force suspend
sleep 485
fi
fi
# back to default
xset dpms 180 480 600
Seems to work. (Although I have just wrote it and haven't tested it for
the required periods of time).
Thank you for your attention.
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