| JanC | Azelphur: a well-designed monitor should consume < 0.5W when you use the standby button; isn't that an option? | 17:23 |
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| Azelphur | JanC: I managed to solve it, it's the nvidia driver that does it and there's an option in xorg.conf to turn it off | 17:23 |
| Azelphur | JanC: the problem was that it's annoying putting 4 monitors one by one into standby :) | 17:23 |
| JanC | maybe there should be a standby command that can be sent by the OS :) | 17:24 |
| Azelphur | JanC: there is, xset dpms force off, but it's annoying to use. | 17:25 |
| JanC | anyway, powering down the monitor is probably indistinguishable from unplugging the monitor | 17:25 |
| Azelphur | indeed it is, Option "UseHotplugEvents" "Off" saves the day anyway | 17:26 |
| Azelphur | I wouldn't really want it disabling any of my monitors under any circumstances anyway | 17:26 |
| JanC | does DPMS put the monitor in full standby? | 17:26 |
| JanC | if so, it would be as easy as putting a "button" somewhere in your UI :) | 17:27 |
| Azelphur | JanC: yea it does | 17:27 |
| Azelphur | so, I could do it like that | 17:27 |
| Azelphur | the only problem with it is that the screen gets turned on again if you knock the mouse even slightly, and then it doesn't get turned off again | 17:28 |
| Azelphur | which is annoying. | 17:28 |
| JanC | then you would have to disable *that* | 17:28 |
| JanC | actually, I think you can make it turn off the screen after an amount of inactivity? | 17:29 |
| JanC | and maybe you can disable the "mouse move re-enables" | 17:30 |
| Azelphur | JanC: or just use my button, which solves all the problems and saves even more power than standby :P | 17:31 |
| Azelphur | and plus I can plug other things into it | 17:31 |
| JanC | as long as you don't need to add/remove monitors :) | 17:32 |
| Azelphur | JanC: it's a PC, so adding/removing monitors is unlikely :) | 17:33 |
| JanC | and I wonder if that option also applies to keyboards, mice, etc. | 17:33 |
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