Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 22:01:34 -0500 From: Christopher Farley <chris@northernbrewer.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to remotely illuminate a room with BSD? Message-ID: <20020523030131.GA1290@northernbrewer.com>
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I just installed a network camera in my office. I really want to play with it, and see live streaming video tonight, but I turned the lights out in my office. I know this is really stupid, but I would really get a kick out of seeing my monitor on my workstation turn on, which I'm sure would flood the room with enough light to see something. My workstation is currently running X, but the monitor is in 'energy saving' mode. I'm wondering if there's a way to simulate a keypress or mouse event remotely. I thought about killing the X Server, which would probably 'wake' the monitor and show a console. But the mostly-black console would not be quite as illuminating as a bright X display. Is it possible to *start* an X Server from a remote machine? I know this is all astonishingly trivial, and I am proving myself to be an insufferable geek, but *I want to remotely illuminate my office*!! -- Christopher Farley www.northernbrewer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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