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X11 - Turn off Back Light

June 18th, 2005

After enabling in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, in the Monitor Section

 
Option "DPMS"

(Restart X11)

Now you can run, “xset dpms force suspend”

to suspend your screen. Also, the xscreensaver will now turn off the backlight.

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