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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

Not sure if its a neurodivergent thing but I often want to "turn off" or completely darken the monitor without actually pulling the power.

catch { dont want to just do sound and the tv is left to its boilerplate/ad-dled idle nonsense }

I like how on certain devices if you have low power mode on and you AirPlay, it goes completely dark after a moment, I'd like to something like that but for computer. Sort of like a non-screensaver screensaver that doest lock or anything but lets me recreate when TVs used to let you turn of the display

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[-] e0qdk@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago

If you're on linux with X11, you can run xset dpms force off to turn the monitor off. Either call manually in a terminal or add to scripts where needed. (I assume wayland probably has something similar too, but I don't know what it is specifically.)

Most desktop environments already have a GUI-based way of setting an idle time-out if that's what you're looking for; this is a way to call it immediately.

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

Wayland has similar via busctl . I will have to lookup what my KDE connect commands are

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