Is there a shell command that sets the amount of idle time before the monitor turns off? It's the option in System Settings -> Monitor & Display -> Power Saving. Quake3-based games break monitor power saving (I remember the same problem on Windows a few years ago), so I wanted to just make a quick cron job as a workaround.
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http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/xset.1.htmlComment
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Re: Shell command for setting monitor power off time
Great, thanks. I remember coming across that when I was searching online, but I don't know why I didn't think it was what I needed. For the impatient that might find this thread, it's xset dpms <standby> <suspend> <off>, where each mode is a number of seconds (I use xset dpms 0 0 120 to just make the monitor turn off after 2 minutes).
Edit: If you want to use this in a cron job, you have to explicitly give the display, e.g. xset -display :0 dpms 0 0 120Comment
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