monitor backlight won't turn off, wrote a daemon to force it on / off

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 04 May 2009, dave selby wrote:
> It needs to be run as root, I start it by adding
>
> @reboot /usr/local/bin/backlight_daemon.py
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> to my roots crontab. Its easier than setting up a /etc/init.d/...
>
> Anyhow it solved my problem and I wanted to share it with you guys,

I just use this in my crontab:

3 * * * *  /usr/bin/xset -display :0 dpms 1200,0,0



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