[H-GEN] Turning off laptop display

[Timothy [HiTCHO] Hitchens]

I would suggest you wire up a vga or dvi plug as a loopback of sorts and set
laptop to use external monitor and you are away.  The screen on the laptop
will be blank and the external goes nowhere.

And if you get a small plug nothing big hanging out.

Otherwise you can try setting your TERM to a wide range of weird and
wonderful settings which can result in some very hard to impossible to read
settings for console modes.


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> From: Geoff Shang <geoff at hitsandpieces.net>
> Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 10:43:45 +1000 (EST)
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> Subject: [H-GEN] Turning off laptop display
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> Hi everyone,
> 
> My flat mate has an oldish compaq (I think) laptop with Debian Sarge on it.
> She wants to know if it's possible to turn the screen off so people can't
> look at what she's writing.  Since she is blind, she has no need for it
> herself.
> 
> Is this possible?  Is this something specific to particular laptops or is
> there a standard way to do this sort of thing?
> 
> If there isn't a laptop way to do it, is there something that might achieve
> the same result, say setting the foreground colour to the same as the
> background.
> 
> She only uses console aps at this stage.
> 
> Geoff.
> 
> 
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