disabling/dimming the monitor

[G.E.]

Hi Ty,
Some laptops allow you to turn the screen off by pressing the FN key and one 
of the function keys.  Others only allow you to lower the brightness, or 
increase it, using the FN key and a couple of the function keys.  Some 
laptops will do all three with the same method.
You will either have to experiment, or have some eyes look at the 
hieroglyphics on the function keys to see what picture looks like a symbol 
depicting light and dark, or a shade or something.
Also, I know that Vinux has a keyboard command for turning it off, and maybe 
there is a general Linux command for that as well.
HTH.
Glenn
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Littlefield, Tyler" <tyler at tysdomain.com>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 6:45 PM
Subject: disabling/dimming the monitor


Hello all:
I have a question. I'm going to be switching to my Linux box for
full-time cli access for a while while I send in my laptop, and I was
curious if there's a way to disable/turn the backlight way down. It
would save me a lot of battery power to start with, but My eyes are also
really sensative to the light, so having the monitor open and facing at
it can give me some pretty bad headaches. Any ideas would be cool. I'm
using arch at the moment, though I don't think that would matter much.

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Ty
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