disabling/dimming the monitor

[Janina Sajka]

Since you mention dimming the console, you might want to reset your
default color scheme using the setterm command. Once you get a
combination you like, you can add it to your .profile (or .bash_profile,
however you have it on your OS).

Example:

setterm -bold on -foreground yellow -background black

gives you bright yellow type on a black background.

setterm -half-bright

Dims the console screen to half brightness.

There are many more options. Check out the man page. Save them in your
.profile or using the -store switch to make them your default.

This will not change the color schemes of applications like mutt and
lynx, but it will affect the consoles you open at the command prompt.

Mutt and Lynx provide their own schemes for color control. In
particular, I seem to recall lynx has a low-contrast, darkish setting
that may work for you.

hth

Janina

Littlefield, Tyler writes:
> 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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