Command to turn off display

[Smajjk]

In xubuntu, are there any way to give a command in the terminal which will turn off the display?

[schragge]

I guess it depends on monitor you're using. You can try
sudo apt-get install ddccontrol and play with it.

[steeldriver]

In an X session, you may be able to do it with xrandr - you will need to know the name of the output device e.g. by running 'xrandr -q'



$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 1680 x 1050, maximum 8192 x 8192
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
LVDS-0 connected 1680x1050+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 331mm x 207mm
1680x1050 60.0*+ 50.0
DVI-D-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)


Then in my case I would turn it off with


xrandr --output LVDS-0 --off

Setting the value to 'auto' should turn it back on e.g.

xrandr --output LVDS-0 --auto

[stinkeye]

Try...

xset dpms force suspend

[Smajjk]

Try...

xset dpms force suspend

As this seemed like the simplest option I tried it first, and it WORKED! Thank you :)

Btw, I'm on a Thinkpad T61 and this command turned off its display.

[jayanth.n.murthy]

Just run this in the terminal and you are good to go,:)

perl -e 'select(undef,undef,undef,.5)' && xset dpms force off