On Thursday, 11 September 2025 15:54:04 British Summer Time Javier Martinez wrote: > El 11/9/25 a las 16:12, Peter Humphrey escribió: > > > Greetings, > > > > The plasma desktop has a setting for 'turning off' the screen, by which > > it > > means to stop driving it after a period of inactivity, so that it blanks > > itself. I have this set to 8 minutes. > > > > Is there a way to prompt this myself? I can't see a keyboard shortcut, or > > perhaps I can't see for looking... > > > > check xset command > > "man xset"
Interesting - thanks; I hadn't used xset before. I think I need a magic potion to specify which display is to be xset. I've tried variations on 'xset dpms standyb', but I always get 'unable to open display "" '. -- Regards, Peter.

