Not sure if its a neurodivergent thing but I often want to "turn off" or completely darken the monitor without actually pulling the power.
catch { dont want to just do sound and the tv is left to its boilerplate/ad-dled idle nonsense }
I like how on certain devices if you have low power mode on and you AirPlay, it goes completely dark after a moment, I'd like to something like that but for computer. Sort of like a non-screensaver screensaver that doest lock or anything but lets me recreate when TVs used to let you turn of the display
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username_1@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 3d
Not sure if I understand you, but most modern OSes switch off the monitor after a few minutes of idling.
Canconda@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3d
Do you mean "picture mute" like some TV's used to have where the audio kept playing? Definitely a feature I miss for winding down at night. End up turning down all the video settings to nil for 90% of the effect.
Cort@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 3d
That's a feature on LG oled TVs.
e0qdk@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 3d
If you're on linux with X11, you can run
xset dpms force offto turn the monitor off. Either call manually in a terminal or add to scripts where needed. (I assume wayland probably has something similar too, but I don't know what it is specifically.)Most desktop environments already have a GUI-based way of setting an idle time-out if that's what you're looking for; this is a way to call it immediately.
BCsven@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2d
Wayland has similar via busctl . I will have to lookup what my KDE connect commands are
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de · 2 pts · 3d
On my laptop I have the power button set to turn off the monitor. I use it to listen to stuff to fall asleep to.
Darcranium@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3d
I, too would like to know how to do this. I'm running Linux mint on an old Dell latitude laptop