Tom Horsley wrote: > I get the impression that sometimes mplayer disables > the power saver mode that would turn off the screen > after 10 minutes (or whatever the default is), then > forgets to re-enable it on exit (perhaps when it > crashes, which happens occasionally). > > What commands could I run (other than "reboot") to > setup the power saver modes again when I notice the > monitor hasn't shut itself off for half a day? > > Is the "xset" command the only one I'd need, or > are there 47 different helpful subsystems involved > each one of which needs to be individually reset? :-). xset is all you'll need. FWIW, for various personal reasons I use different power saver settings at different times. So, I simply wrote a script to do what I want and created several desktop icons to call the script.
