how to wake up sleeping monitor using batch script/command

[Ed Greshko]

On 12/26/2010 06:37 AM, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> I have a Flat Panel Monitor with built in speakers.  If the monitor is on(not sleeping), the speakers work.  When the Monitor goes to sleep, the speakers no longer work :(, I have a cron job that plays music in the morning, but since the monitor is sleeping the music does not play :(
>
> 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
>
> but the monitor does not wake up :(, I tried using variations like
> xset -dpms 
>
> and 
>
> xset +dpms
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> and force on, force off to no avail.  I sent a message to list, on how the crontab job was set and the script itself, but it has not made it to list, or was deleted?  If you get a double post, please accept my apologies in advance, don't know how to blame, users* list or yahoo mail^{1}.
>
>

Install the xdotool package (available on F11...not sure if F14 has it)
and then use one of the commands to move the mouse.


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