On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 08:44:26PM +1100, Jason White wrote: > > 1. How to turn back on the screen (for both methods)? This might be > > required on the fly when someone needs to see what I'm doing. > > setterm -blank poke > should do this for the console, according to the manual page. I don't know > about X in this regard.
Thanks. > > 3. I no setterm appears to be useless under a screen session. Does this > > mean I'll just have to open another virtual console or drop out from the > > screen session to toggle the screen on and off if I need too? > > When you're in a screen session, you're using a psudo-TTY. Setterm requires a > real virtual console to set. You could try redirecting its output with the > > operator to the virtual console, e.g., /dev/tty1. Very nice idea, it works. Thanks for your help. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
