The other day I set out to find a way to turn my monitor off, for when I get distracted while away from my computer.
I followed the instructions at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Automatically_turn_off_your_monitor.
But this was not successful :-( .  The monitor stays on.
After google searching and coming up with the same information as in the Howto, I was about to give it up as a no go.  Then I noticed in the article that in the xorg.conf portion the commands are:

File: /etc/X11/XF86Config
Section "Monitor"
 ...
 Option "DPMS"

...
      
Section "ServerLayout"
 ...
 Option "OffTime" "20"
      


But the command to turn off the monitor in the testing portion is "/usr/X11R6/bin/xset dpms force off",  (which does work).
I decided to change the command in xorg.conf from Option "DPMS"  to Option "dpms", success the monitor now turns off :-) .  My question is: is this typical?




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