"Otto" writes:

>Hi All,
>Apologies if this is OT, which I suspect it is...

>When running XFree86 or Xorg on my x86 Linux PC (SuSE 9.1), after the
>screen-saver has been active for a while, the screen goes into power
>save mode.

>Is there some way of waking up the screen programatically?

>The only way I can find of waking up the screen is by physically
>waggling the mouse or pressing a key, and I don't want to attach a
>robot arm to my PC to achieve this...

>Using XTEST to move the mouse pointer or press keys doesn't seem to
>have any effect, although it does cancel the screen-saver :|


Perhaps this works:
xset dpms force on


Casper

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