You are really keen on saving as much energy as possible? But you want to go beyond dimming down your Display a bit? Dim it completely :)

Then the first step would be, to follow these instructions and read a bit further down the page. This enables you to close your lid, without your Eee doing anything except turning off the display.

Now: If you want to go even further (like me), and you think that closing the lid, everytime you want to save battery, might stress the joints too much: Just create a shortcut for it. I wanted to put it on the unused Fn+F10 first but obviously it's way too hard to configure these Fn-keys, so I use the Win-key instead.

If you just want to try it:

xset dpms force suspend

By the way: The display will be reactivated if you move your mouse or press a button

If you like it, just create a file, somewhere in your /bin, using

sudo kwrite /bin/displaysaver

And just write

#!/bin/sh
 
xset dpms force standby

in it. Save it, and make it executable with

sudo chmod +x /bin/displaysaver

I dont know, how to do it directly, so you will have to add it to your Menu Id suggest adding it to Utilities, but, just put it whereever you want it :)

Start your Menu Editor Either by rightclicking on your start menu and selecting (obviously) “Menu Editor” Or go to your konsole and type

kmenuedit

You'll end up with the same

So, select your subfolder (E.g. Applications > Utilies) Select File > New Item Enter a name that suits you (I quite liked Displaysaver) and as command simply enter displaysaver You could use as Icon

Important: You have to tick Place in system tray, otherwise it just works for a seconds

Ehm, did I forget something? Ahh, addin a shortcut :)

On the bottom you'll see the shortcut thing. Click on it, mark the “multi key mode” and add the key combos you like. (I suggest Win+F10 > since Fn+F10 doesnt work, and Win+Z > close together, very easy to reach)

— Dominik 2008/05/24 05:27