I have a linux laptop connected to a large screen display that shows
informational items (what it is doesn't matter) that are only viewed
from 7am-6pm. To conserve energy and reduce screen wear I would like for
the display to go to sleep after the PC has been idle for X hours.
The GUI screensaver and Power Management controls do not allow you to
select any times greater than 2 hours of idle time. If I could set it
for 12 hours, I could just move the mouse when I walk by it first thing
in the morning, and 12 hours later it would automatically go to sleep
until the next day.
I would prefer to have APM blank the screen via a cron job, then I could
just "set it and forget it".
I remember there was a command-line way to set screenblanking time of
consoles, but how does one do it in runlevel 5?
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