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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Scripting the power control
From:       Andy Pieters <andy () vlaamse-kern ! com>
Date:       2005-10-29 15:03:07
Message-ID: 200510291703.09590.andy () vlaamse-kern ! com
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Hi

Thanks.  

With kind regards


Andy

On Saturday 29 October 2005 16:59, Rafał Rzepecki wrote:
> On Friday, 28 October 2005 14:52, Andy Pieters wrote:
> > Hi List
> >
> > First off sorry if this isn't the right place to ask.
> >
> > Actually I like to make the timeout to poweroff my monitors dynamic. 
> > Like if I am doing something but want to prevent the monitors to
> > poweroff.
> >
> > Is there a way to do this with dcop?
>
> I don't think you need to use dcop; in fact, I don't think it is possible
> at all to use dcop to do what you want.
>
> It seems that what you need is xset(1). See the manual (look for dpms
> option). An example:
> $ xset dpms 60 300 600
> or even
> $ xset -dpms
>
> There are also some X11 messages you can pass around to do the same thing
> programatically; AFAIR the extension is XDPMS.

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