From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 20: 1:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kraeusen.nbrewer.com (kraeusen.nbrewer.com [208.42.68.65]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B9D137B405 for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 20:01:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by kraeusen.nbrewer.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C047BB798; Wed, 22 May 2002 22:01:34 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 22:01:34 -0500 From: Christopher Farley To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to remotely illuminate a room with BSD? Message-ID: <20020523030131.GA1290@northernbrewer.com> Mail-Followup-To: Christopher Farley , questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organization: Northern Brewer, St. Paul, MN Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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