ACPI and suspend

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 21:56, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On Aug 22, 2004, Russell Coker <russell at coker.com.au> wrote:
> 
> > The default configuration of ACPI on my Thinkpad T41p is that closing the lid 
> > will turn off the back-light but leave the machine running.
> 
> > Is this the desired default behaviour?
> 
> FWIW, it is for me (and, in fact, it's the only way to turn off the
> back-light)

Try this from an xterm 
cat scripts/screen-blanker 
# Written by Ow Mun Heng
# Oct 15 19:44
# (VERY) Simple executable file to enable screen blanking with one mouse
click
# wonder if I can put in a short-cut key

xset -display :0 dpms force off


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Ow Mun Heng
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