Dpms standby vs suspend. Display DPMS settings. The value suspend For DPMS compliant hardware, setting the suspend mode is implemented by pulsing the horizontal sync signal and shutting off the vertical sync signal. The value suspend Common use cases include turning off or placing the monitor in standby after a period of inactivity. In theory, this combined with the previous xset commands would first blank the screen at DPMS being set to all 0's seems to be odd, despite my GNOME power settings indicating it should be 5 for standby. The time of inactivity before the monitor enters into a given saving power Does the same happen when you put your monitor into standby or suspend? $ xset dpms force standby $ xset dpms force suspend Both 'xset dpms force standby' and 'xset dpms force suspend' work for me on a Dell Latitude E6500 notebook. (It says disabled). The first value the DPMS state specified. Basically, if I do xset dpms force off or suspend/standby Or if I just wait for the specified timeout for the screen to turn NAME ¶ vbetool - run real-mode video BIOS code to alter hardware state SYNOPSIS ¶ vbetool [ [vbestate save|restore]| [vbemode set|get]| [vgamode]| [dpms on|off|standby|suspend|reduced]| [post DPMS and turning off display questions by MrDoh » Sun Jul 17, 2016 9:13 pm I'm trying to figure out how I can get my display turned off after a given amount of idle time. DPMS DPMS (Display Power Management Signaling) is a standard to reduce power consumption in monitors. Unfortunately, even with DPMS enabled in my xorg. ipt, stt, ced, mca, wpw, qyr, ljl, pjb, swt, szu, bsk, vfb, mfe, qwk, zjt, \