On 12/25/10 8:24 PM, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > --- On Sat, 12/25/10, Ed Greshko<Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> From: Ed Greshko<Ed.Greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> >> Subject: Re: how to wake up sleeping monitor using batch script/command >> To: "Community support for Fedora users"<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Saturday, December 25, 2010, 6:05 PM >> On 12/26/2010 10:00 AM, JB wrote: >>> Some observations when done on a command line. >>> - the screen does not come up when >>> $ xset dpms force off ; sleep 10 ; >> xset dpms force on> /dev/null 2&>1 >>> - the screen DOES come up after 10s when >>> $ xset dpms force off ; sleep 10 ; >> xset dpms force on >> >> Neither of these incantations will turn my screen on.... >> >> xset dpms force off ; sleep 10 ; xdotool mousemove_relative >> 1 1 >> >> works fine... >> >> >> -- > $ xset dpms force off ; sleep 10 ; xset dpms force on > > works from cli, but does not when called from the script :(, > > @James& JB > the redirection> /dev/null 2>&1 > > is to avoid having shitloads of mail by th mailer :) Yep. However, does this work on the command line as well? It looked like it did not on JBs machine. James McKenzie -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines