how to wake up sleeping monitor using batch script/command

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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

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