[CLUG] Power management

[Paul J Collins]

>>>>> "ab" == adam beecher <adam at iewebs.com> writes:

    ab> How do you set up monitor power management in Linux (Red Hat
    ab> 7)? All I can find is stuff about power management for
    ab> laptops, and a couple of packages that don't seem to really do
    ab> anything. I just want to power down the monitor after 20
    ab> minutes or so, and have it come back up again when I fiddle
    ab> with the mouse or keyboard. Like Windows. :)

I think you can do that with the X server's DPMS support.  Check out xset(1).

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