how to wake up sleeping monitor using batch script/command

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Sat, 12/25/10, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:

> From: Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>
> Subject: Re: how to wake up sleeping monitor using batch script/command
> To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Saturday, December 25, 2010, 7:45 PM
> On 12/26/2010 11:24 AM, Antonio
> Olivares wrote:
> > Will report back if I can get it to work, otherwise I
> will have to get Ed's solution.
> Another FYI....
> 
> If you run this from a cron job you'll need to add "export
> DISPLAY=:0".
> 
> 
> -- 

Awesome!!!

with export DISPLAY=:0, the screen wakes up & plays the music :)

#!/bin/sh

export DISPLAY=:0
/usr/bin/xset dpms force on;
/usr/bin/xterm -display :0 -bg white \
-e /usr/bin/mplayer --really-quiet -shuffle -playlist ~/.playlist -stop-xscreensaver & PID=$! > /dev/null 2>&1
sleep 1800
kill $PID
/usr/bin/xset +dpms

Thanks, Ed, JB, & James, could not have done it without your help! 
Happy Holidays to all;

Regards,

Antonio