From owner-freebsd-questions Wed May 22 20:27: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4496537B40A for ; Wed, 22 May 2002 20:26:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.2/8.12.3) id g4N3Qv0Y085521; Wed, 22 May 2002 22:26:57 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 22:26:57 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Christopher Farley Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How to remotely illuminate a room with BSD? Message-ID: <20020523032657.GF34640@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020523030131.GA1290@northernbrewer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020523030131.GA1290@northernbrewer.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.99i X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error 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 In the last episode (May 22), Christopher Farley said: > 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. You should be able to simply disable the screensaver. If X itself blanked the screen, try "xset s off". If you're running xscreensaver, try "xscreensaver-command -exit" > 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? Sure. Just run "startx" just as though you were on a console. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message