lcd monitors and screensavers

Wed Jan 5 17:14:51 UTC 2005

On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Francois Ouellette wrote:

> True!
>
> With LCD monitors you want to save the backlight if it is so equipped.
> Showing a 3D maze or any other nonsense will not help!
> Use the "blank screen" and this should turn off the backlighting system.

blank screen does not turn off the backlight. Use DPMS to turn it off.

Peter
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