second monitor often wakes up after 'xset dpms force off'

[Alan Coopersmith]

Tomas Carnecky wrote:
> I have two monitors and if I use 'xset dpms force off' the second
> monitor (Samsung SyncMaster on CRT-1) most of the time wakes up after
> less than a second. I have to try a few times (up to 15 times this
> morning!) until is works (=both monitors turn off).

Try "sleep 1; xset dpms force off" - I find that just typing
'xset dpms force off', even on single screen systems often
doesn't work because when the command is processed when you
press the Return key down, and most computers these days are
fast enough to have finished before you've let go of the return
key and have processed the KeyRelease event, so the KeyRelease
triggers as a new input event to wake up the screens again.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering