[H-GEN] Turning off laptop display

[Gary Curtis]

I would suggest the low-tech approach. Make up a physical cover
for the screen. A cloth bag or something. That way, if a sighted
person is able to help her, she need only remove the cover.
The only down side is that anyone watching her use the computer
would KNOW she was blind.

Gaz

On 7/25/06, Geoff Shang <geoff at hitsandpieces.net> wrote:
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> Hi everyone,
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> 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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