how to wake up sleeping monitor using batch script/command

[James McKenzie]

On 12/25/10 7:00 PM, JB wrote:
> Antonio Olivares<olivares14031<at>  yahoo.com>  writes:
>
>> ...
>> I tried adding a command to wake up the monitor like
>> 48 04 * * 1-5 sleep 2; xset dpms force on>  /dev/null 2&>1
>> ...
> Some observations when done on a command line.
> - the screen does not come up when
>    $ xset dpms force off ; sleep 10 ; xset dpms force on>  /dev/null 2&>1
> - the screen DOES come up after 10s when
>    $ xset dpms force off ; sleep 10 ; xset dpms force on
>
You know I say "Doc it hurts when I do this."
My doctor says "Don't do that."

It looks like the redirects are causing the command to not work 
properly, so don't use them.

James McKenzie